Sara Stevenson, a middle school librarian in Austin (and a hero of this blog for her tireless advocacy) Reviews Daniel Koretz’s “The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better” in Trib Talk, part of the Texas Tribune..
https://www.tribtalk.org/2017/12/20/the-education-testing-charade/
Here is no better place to puncture the myth of standardized testing’s beneficent powers than in Texas, which spawned the punitive and failed No Child Left Behind and foisted it on the nation.
Good work, Sara! Keep fighting!
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I love her real life examples. Who would want their child in a class focused on memorizing rules rather than engaging with interesting problems? Who thinks that a child is going to learn to read better if only encouraged to use it for academic skill development? Who thinks back on a textbook as their favorite book in elementary school?
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speduktr: much said in few words.
I have read the book in question and it is a damning indictment of the misuse and abuse of standardized testing from an insider. That is, someone who both knows the ins and outs of creating/administering/scoring them and the values/judgments/assumptions underlying these eduproducts.
His book underscores the willful ignorance of those using standardized test scores as a shorthand for evaluating and slamming public education.
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For another point of view: http://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Reviews/v13n1.htm
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