NYC Public School Parents: Time to change the stakes with testing? Join us for an evening with Yong Zhao!

NYC Public School Parents: Time to change the stakes with testing? Join us for an evening with Yong Zhao!:

Time to change the stakes with testing? Join us for an evening with Yong Zhao!

by Leonie Haimson

American education is at a crossroads. Two paths lie in front of us: one in which we destroy our strengths in order to catch up with others on test scores and one in which we build on our strengths so we can keep the lead in innovation and creativity.

The current push for more standardization, centralization, high-stakes testing, and test-based accountability is rushing us down the first path, while what will truly keep America strong and Americans prosperous should be the latter, the one that