“State Blinded By Its Devotion to School Testing”
Tampa Bay Times columnist John Romano takes the latest breakdown in Florida’s test-dominated accountability system and leads to where fault really lies. Florida’s education policy-makers are obsessively devoted to standardized tests.
The state’s devotion to standardized testing is admirable.
It is also foolish, political, expensive, dangerous, maniacal, shortsighted, suspicious, self-serving, arbitrary and unfair
But, man, you got to admire the devotion.
It allows officials to look past their flaws. It permits them to ignore your complaints.
The state’s Department of Education is on a three-month bender, and still acts as if it is everyone