Guess when this warning about testing was written
The following, published in an American newspaper, warns about the dangers of attaching high stakes to standardized test results and about the growing dependence on these assessments in public education.
The piece was written by Fred Smith, who was a research analyst in testing for the New York Public Schools for many years.
This sounds like it was written this year, but it wasn’t. Read it and at the end you’ll see when and where it was published.
Here’s the piece:
New York City needs a testing ombudsman.
The reasons for this need grow out of larger concerns: the educational
