The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better,New

The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better,New

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For decades weve been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and theres still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountablewe need to know whether what theyre doing is actually working. But what does that mean in practice?Highstakes tests. Lots of them. And that has become a major problem. Daniel Koretz, one of the nations foremost experts on educational testing, argues in The Testing Charade that the whole idea of testbased accountability has failedit has increasingly become an end in itself, harming students and corrupting the very ideals of teaching. In this powerful polemic, built on unimpeachable evidence and rooted in decades of experience with educational testing, Koretz calls out highstakes testing as a sham, a false idol that is ripe for manipulation and shows little evidence of leading to educational improvement. Rather than setting up incentives to divert instructional time to pointless test prep, he argues, we need to measure what matters, and measure it in multiple waysnot just via standardized tests.Right now, were lying to ourselves about whether our children are learning. And the longer we accept that lie, the more damage we do. Its time to end our blind reliance on highstakes tests. With The Testing Charade, Daniel Koretz insists that we face the facts and change course, and he gives us a blueprint for doing better.

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