Jan Resseger read Valerie Strauss’s hopeful column about a possible end to America’s obsession with standardized testing, and wrote about how this testing has warped American education into a punishing regime, rather than an environment of nurturing , growth, caring, compassion, and human development.
Jan reviews some of the most important ways in which test scores have been used to punish students, teachers, principals, and schools, even school districts.
Enough is enough.
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One could also add that perhaps the greatest damage has been to perceptions about the teaching profession as a whole. Colleges of Education now see enrollment down 37% since 2008 as more and more young people see the torture teachers are put through for no apparent reason.
I have long thought that the testing was done more to get statistics to use against public education than to help teachers or students. There is a simple, easy to read book that explains how it works – “How to Lie with Statistics” You don’t need to be good at math to understand the simple explanations on how the public is conned.