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A Nation of Test Takers:the effects of standardized testing on the American education system By Kelly Whelan

“Over the past decade, the standards and high-stakes testing movement has had a chokehold on content, dismissing alternative views and affecting budget-poor high schools by eliminating electives, arts, career and technical education, and other approaches to learning…doing some good, but more damage”

“Education is being is being reduced to test bubbles on a page that determine a student’s future”,[object Object]

Sample Questions from the 1999 SAT The SAT I: Reasoning Test is a three-hour test of verbal and mathematical reasoning ability that reflects the latest knowledge of mental measurement and generates scores related to academic success in college. This test is primarily multiple choice. More than 2.2 million students in the US sent SAT scores to more than 3,000 colleges and universities. Sample Question: The general view of gorillas as menacing, ferocious King Kongs was not successfully _______ until Diane Fossey’s field studies in the 1960’s showed gorillas to be peaceable, rather fainthearted creatures, unlikely to __________ humans A. counteracted…please B. enhanced…murder C. verified…attacked D. dispelled…captivate E. challenged…threaten You can go online to view a practice test for the 2009-2010 SAT http://satonlinecourse.collegeboard.com/SR/digital_assets/assesment/pdf/F4D31AB0-66B4-CE32-00F7-F5405701F413-F.pdf

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“policies enacted under NCLB ignore the very real challenges we face in our classrooms…I teach 170 students a day, and I have 2.4 minutes per student per day…Many of my students are English-language learners who, after only a few years learning English, are required to pass a six-hour long Regents exam…with students from no fewer than eighty different countries and more than forty language groups, the wealth and diversity of experience they bring to my classroom is invaluable: they cannot be reduced to the pernicious categories used under NCLB to determine our progress toward Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)…my students are more than data on a spreadsheet. They are individuals with unique learning styles and talents—as well as struggles and difficulties—all of which need to be acknowledged”,[object Object]

“Testing forces us to think about people as numbers,” she says: “’Data’ has become the word of the day. Professional development for English teachers in my school no longer involves discussion of literature; instead, we pour over data in search of ways to boost students’ score”

“Students and teachers are evaluated solely on the data they produce and schools are penalized for failing on the basis of arbitrary standards that they have never had the resources to meet”

“Under the guise of ‘accountability’ and ‘raising standards’ New York City has spent $130 million in the past year on their ‘accountability initiative’. But the human toll…outweighs the monetary costs. A third-grade teacher recently told me that her students can expect to take forty-six bubble tests in a year—one fourth of their entire school year”,[object Object]

When a child is learning, educators who are familiar with brain-based learning strategies know that the child must be immersed in meaningful learning experiences. Play can be used as a tool for gaining experience in primary age students; Cooperative learning and active learning are well equipped for elementary grade students; and curriculum should respect multiple intelligences,[object Object]

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