Time to end standardized testing mania by Joseph A. Ricciotti
Joseph A. Ricciotti is a retired education and fellow public education advocate and commentator. His latest article, Time to end standardized testing mania first appeared in the CT Post.
Joseph Ricciotti writes;
It took the power of parents in the nation as part of the “opt out” of standardized testing movement to realize that the use of standardized tests in public education is a dismal failure.Needless to say, to hear the President of the United States shift his views on standardized testing should now prompt other politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, to give up the notion that testing can be used to assess students, teachers and schools.Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.Hopefully, President Obama’s change of heart concerning testing might also be the catalyst to elevate this issue for the current presidential campaign.For example, in light of the early endorsement given to Hillary Clinton byTime to end standardized testing mania by Joseph A. Ricciotti - Wait What?:
