The Onion: Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing

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1. Dienne says:

   May 12, 2015 at 10:13 am

   As our dear friend KrazyTA would say, much said, few words. Brilliant. I’d say hilarious, but it’s too painfully true.

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2. Chiara says:

   May 12, 2015 at 10:18 am

   This one was good, but I think this was better:

   “WASHINGTON—Citing the need to measure student achievement as its top priority, the U.S. Department of Education launched a new initiative Thursday to replace the nation’s entire K-12 curriculum with a single standardized test.

   According to government officials, the four-hour-long Universal Education Assessment will be used in every public school across the country, will contain identical questions for every student based on material appropriate for kindergarten through 12th grade, and will permanently take the place of more traditional methods such as classroom instruction and homework assignments.

   Officials said the initiative would also focus on improving teacher performance by tying teachers’ salaries to the test scores of the students they hand the assessment to.”

   Perfect 🙂

   http://www.theonion.com/article/new-education-initiative-replaces-k-12-curriculum–38048

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3. Susan Lee Schwartz says:

   May 12, 2015 at 10:26 am

   cross posted
   http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Pros-And-Cons-Of-Standardi-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Cheating_Data_Education_Education-150512-92.html

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4. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

   May 12, 2015 at 10:31 am

   Thank you, Duane. Love it.

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5. Marian Cruz says:

   May 12, 2015 at 10:36 am

   This must be required reading for Duncan and others that believe testing is working.

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6. Gordon Wilder says:

   May 12, 2015 at 4:08 pm

   Very good
   but
   as mentioned many times before.
   The mainstream media is owned and propagandized by 5 or 6 big corporations. Their agenda is to make money, not to disseminate REAL news.

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7. Kent says:

   May 12, 2015 at 9:01 pm

   How can this kind of rehtoric be entertaining to anyone? It’s childish and sadly indicative of the critical thinking skills learned in our schools over the last thirty years. Shame on you Diane, this subject is too important to be so poorly satirized.

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8. Ken Watanabe says:

   May 13, 2015 at 10:24 am

   Yep. One more on con: It Japanizes American education by goading authority and private education promoters into ‘test score panic attack'(like false alarm on PISA 2003 in J-land) to lobby local/state/federal government.

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9. SomeDAM Poet says:

   May 13, 2015 at 11:13 am

   “Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing”

   Pearson are the pros
   At conning bureaucrat
   And what do you $uppo$e
   They u$e to pull off that?

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10. momocular says:

    May 19, 2015 at 10:10 am

    Hilarious! Insofar as something that communicates painful truth can be hilarious. 😉

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