unpopquiz

America's public schools administer more than 100 million standardized exams each year, including IQ, achievement, screening, and readiness tests.

Much of the time and money devoted to testing is misspent. Too many tests are poorly constructed, unreliable, and unevenly administered. Multiple-choice questions cannot measure thinking skills, creativity, the ability to solve real problems, or the social skills we want our children to have. Moreover, many exams are biased racially, culturally, linguistically, and by class and gender. Testing is an unfair and limited measure of success when it is the sole indicator of a student's academic achievement. Currently, 17 states require students to pass a test to graduate, and 7 more are planning such tests.

On February 25, 2004 Advancement Project Senior Attorney, Judith Browne recently weighed in on the discussion of high stakes testing.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Judith Browne
• Advancement Project
• Attorney
• High stakes testing
• Education
• Stop Schools to Jails
• advancementproject.org
• advocacy
• standardized exams
• iq
• achievement
• readiness tests
• school exams
• k-12
• academic achievement

[shananagans5]

How is expecting kids to have basic knowledge racially biased? I don't care what culture someone comes from or what race or sex they are. They need to know the basics to graduate.