I think it is safe to say that most public school principals and teachers, many parents, and most if not all students hate standardized tests.
There is a good reason for hating standardized tests. They are a waste of time, prove nothing, and cause stress. The only toxic benefits of standardized tests are the profits from public dollars for the test makers. The CEO of one of if not the largest test maker is David Coleman. He earns about one million dollars a year from those stressful, waste of time, expensive tests we the people pay for through taxes that are supposed to fund OUR public schools.
The majority of teachers and principals in Pennsylvania hate standardized tests.
An increasing number of parents are refusing to allow their kids to take the tests.
And there may be better alternatives to the state’s Keystone Exams.
These were just some of the key findings of a blockbuster report from June 2019 by the state General Assembly’s Legislative Budget and Finance Committee.
The report, “Standardized Tests in Public Education” was published about 9 months before the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
It effectively got lost in the chaos that followed the global pandemic.
However, now that things are returning to some semblance of normalcy, it seems that bureaucrats from the state Department of Education (PDE) are taking the wrong lessons from the report while the legislature seems to have forgotten it entirely.
The report was conducted because of legislation written by state Sen. Ryan P. Aument (R-Lancaster County). It directed…
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