Corporate encroachment into our schools is a bad thing. Standardized tests is all about down sizing, simplifying and penny pinching. The Ideal outcome is to have teachers not teaching just servicing the tests. Low wage workers.
When I was in school, I loved those standardized tests. They were fun for me and a real diversion from the normal day to day stuff. Kind of like watching a film instead of being “taught”, though I think those films were teaching us too.
The only thing standardized tests are good for is testing how well you take a standardized test. No wonder more and more top tier universities are no longer requiring the SAT or ACT.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 6 years ago
Corporate encroachment into our schools is a bad thing. Standardized tests is all about down sizing, simplifying and penny pinching. The Ideal outcome is to have teachers not teaching just servicing the tests. Low wage workers.
Stocky One almost 6 years ago
In other words, she fears she’s not going to do very well.
Carl Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Creative? That is the same line that’s been coming out since standardized testing was first proposed.
sfreader1 almost 6 years ago
When I was in school, I loved those standardized tests. They were fun for me and a real diversion from the normal day to day stuff. Kind of like watching a film instead of being “taught”, though I think those films were teaching us too.
saje49 almost 6 years ago
Facts are what the powers that be dictate as knowledge. Intelligence is the wisdom to learn outside the box, school, cubicle…
erin.adamic Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I mean, she’s not wrong …
cuzinron47 almost 6 years ago
And we’re grade on a curve.
Teto85 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
The only thing standardized tests are good for is testing how well you take a standardized test. No wonder more and more top tier universities are no longer requiring the SAT or ACT.