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Florida’s Education Commissioner Scoffs at Widespread Opposition to Testing

by Bob Sikes

With the number of parents organizing opposition to high-stakes testing mushrooming across the nation, Florida’s education commissioner shrugged:

“I don’t pretend anxiety doesn’t exist. … I don’t make a value judgment on whether we have too many tests, because the question I have is, compared to what? But what I will say is that there are through rule things that we can do to soften what is happening,” Robinson said. “The number of tests probably won’t change. What can we do to soften or put in some safety guards to deal