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Excerpt from the article, the full version of which is linked below:
Standardized tests are not a valid measure of a good education. Instead, they usually just predict future school success, which is a tautological begging of the question about “a good education”. And besides: standardized testing has many “side effects” harmful to our children, teachers, administrators, schools, and our whole society. Let me explain.
Standardized tests do not test whether our students are getting a good education.
A good education is, and was supposed to be [as Socrates wisely taught] for living the “good life” before we die; and as W.E.B. Du Bois rightly prescribes: for learning to be a valuable citizen of society.
Standardized tests are not a valid measure of a good education. Instead, they usually just predict future school success, which is a tautological begging of the question about “a good education”. And besides: standardized testing has many “side effects” harmful to our children, teachers, administrators, schools, and our whole society. Let me explain.
Standardized tests do not test whether our students are getting a good education.
A good education is, and was supposed to be [as Socrates wisely taught] for living the “good life” before we die; and as W.E.B. Du Bois rightly prescribes: for learning to be a valuable citizen of society.
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On 6/03/11, In Teachers.Net Gazette, June 2011 wrote: > Excerpt from the article, the full version of which is > linked below: > > Standardized tests are not a valid measure of a good > education. Instead, they usually just predict future school > success, which is a tautological begg...See More