Billy Townsend: Is the Era of High-Stakes Standardized Testing Coming to an End?
Billy Townsend of Florida writes here about an emerging development: the end of high-stakes testing. As a candidate, Biden promised to end it, but didn’t....
Category : Standardized Testing
John Tanner: Why Do Politicians Cling to Failed Education Policies?
John Tanner is a blogger in San Antonio. In this post, he asks a question that I have asked myself many times: Why do ”reformers”...
Valerie Strauss: What Is DeSantis Plan to “End Standardized Testing”?
Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post uses her awesome journalistic skills to try to figure out what Governor Ron DeSantis means when he says he...
Manufacturing Consent for Market-Driven Schooling
Christopher A. Lizotte of the University of Washington and Dan Cohen published an interesting research paper about how market-driven policies have been promoted and sold....
Florida: DeSantis Set to Abandon Standardized Testing
Governor Ron DeSantis has decided to drop standardized testing and replace it with “progress monitoring.” The devil is in the details. How will the state...
Nancy Flanagan: It’s Time to End Our National Obsession with Test Scores
Nancy Flanagan is a retired teacher with decades of experience. In this post, she remembers when she used to take standardized test scores seriously. Then...
Jeff Bryant: The End of School “Reform”
Jeff Bryant is a journalist who specializes in education. In a recent issue of The Progressive, he details the many failures of what is falsely...
Jan Resseger: Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Harm Done by Federally Mandated Testing
Jan Resseger combines the meticulousness of a researcher and the heart of a social justice warrior. She is dismayed that the debate about federally mandated...
Jay Mathews Corrects an Error on the Blog
Jay Mathews writes about education for the Washington Post. Although he and I don’t always agree (he is a huge admirer of KIPP and wrote...
Dennis Shirley: Standardized Testing Is Obsolete
Dennis Shirley is the Duganne faculty fellow and professor at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development. His new book with Andy Hargreaves...