Our Overreliance on Achievement Testing How many of you think that we are overtesting our youth? That’s been the cry from family members to teachers to administrators over the last umpteen years. It comes with the growing disapproval of high-stakes achievement testing, the prominent educational paradigm
Now that the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has been signed into law, we’re keeping close tabs on national ESSA news as well as ESSA news from the eight most populous states in the union: CA, TX, FL, NY, IL, PA, OH, and GA. Our
An issue for some time in education has been how to best prepare both ourselves and our students for high stakes testing. How can we take the “surprise” out of test results? It stands to reason that if we know what we are being tested
This post was originally published on Zacarianconsulting.com. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently reemphasized the importance of the annual standardized testing requirement for students in grades 3-8 and once in high school. One of the key reasons that Duncan is advocating for them is that they