How is a standardized test like a zombie?
by pagrundy
How is a standardized test like a zombie?
They’re mindless, and they just keep coming.
The MecklenburgACTS.org “Stop Testing Madness in North Carolina” campaign is off to a great start, closing in on 600 signatures, and with almost half our state’s 100 counties represented.
We’re talking to school boards, superintendents and other organizations about endorsements, and working on a piece of state legislation that would place a moratorium on state-imposed consequences tied to student test scores. This would include A-F school ratings, merit pay and holding students back a grade just because they didn’t pass a state test.
We’ve been getting a terrific response. It isn’t hard to “sell” a testing madness campaign at the grass roots. We have yet to talk to anyone who isn’t already fed up with the tests.
We’ve planned our first event, a “testing zombie” rally here in Mecklenburg County, for April 9. We’ve adopted a zombie theme because it seems to fit: high-stakes tests suck time and money from teaching and learning, devour recess, art and music, deaden creativity, sap original thought. Eventually, if we let them, they will eat
