The Washington Post deconstructs why standardized testingis bad for education.
I’ve often wondered why politicians have felt the need to meddle with education when few or none of them are education experts.
The Times can say that using standardized test scores to evaluate teachers is a sensible policy and Obama can say it and Education Secretary Arne Duncan can say it and Emanuel can say it and so can Bill Gates (who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop it) and governors and mayor from both parties, and heck, anybody can go ahead and shout it out as loud as they can.
It doesn’t make it true.