The 74 Million – Peg Tyre
“When schools were shuttered around the country three months ago, the pandemic did what nearly a decade of activist parents and testing skeptics could not do — put a systemwide pause on statewide standardized testing. It wasn’t because the tests were too long or poorly aligned to classroom learning, or because benchmark exams and test prep were robbing students of a deep and meaningful curriculum — charges that testing critics had been articulating for years.” (more)