Dear colleagues and friends of progressive education,<\/p>\n
It is time for us to stop arguing against high-stakes testing<\/em>. Americans LOVE the idea of high-stakes as long as it means that their kid beats someone else’s kids at school.<\/p>\n We are losing both the battle and the war of ideas.<\/p>\n I humbly suggest that we replace high-stakes testing with the term, constant testing. <\/em>Parents, policy-makers and taxpayers are likely unaware that kids in some jurisdictions spend dozens of days each school year taking standardized tests. That doesn’t include the costs or time wasted on endless test-prep. This practice is obviously unsustainable, excessive and nonsensical.<\/p>\n This subtle rhetorical shift to constant testing <\/em><\/strong>has the potential to move public opinion in our direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear colleagues and friends of progressive education, It is time for us to stop arguing against high-stakes testing. Americans LOVE the idea of high-stakes as … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,428,526,434,436,425,431],"tags":[1195,473,444],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-general","category-leadership","category-learning","category-news","category-politics","category-teaching","tag-high-stakes-testing","tag-school-reform","tag-standardized-testing"],"yoast_head":"\n
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