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Three educators debunk several commonly held beliefs held sacred about the US educational system today such as: * High test scores of students at any particular school are reason enough to assume that they have high student achievement and quality teaching * Improvement in scores on "high stakes" tests is a sound indicator of improvement in learning * Punishments or rewards to schools, teachers, or individual children based on their test scores motivate them to do better A good complementry read to Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education". It also contains a good resource guide for concerned parents, teachers and citizens to take next steps.

2020-08-13 06:26