I appreciate the intent of those who wish to maintain high standards and keep the kids well educated, but there is no point in having this argument without the bigger context of the failures of how education is administered.
We've well proven that in just about anything, it's extremely rare that you get improvement in large bureaucratic systems by making things harder on the people on the bottom, without also providing means and resources to make things better.
I've seen no good reason to think that standardized testing is something that improves this situation, especially as opposed to more localism and autonomy, better funding, etc.
We've well proven that in just about anything, it's extremely rare that you get improvement in large bureaucratic systems by making things harder on the people on the bottom, without also providing means and resources to make things better.
I've seen no good reason to think that standardized testing is something that improves this situation, especially as opposed to more localism and autonomy, better funding, etc.