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The Testing Flailure 0

In my local rag, education professor Claire Berube argues that, as long as politicians continue to flail at public schools with standardized tests, education will continue to deteriorate. Here’s a bit; read the rest.

Under intense pressure from voters, politicians with no educational experience sought the easiest and cheapest solution to prove accountability: Multiple-choice tests. The high-stakes bubble-test assessments soon became a monster

The beneficiaries of the testing flailure are the outfits selling the tests and no one else.

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