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Tag: Ted Sizer

by Charles C. Jett

A Nation Without Skills (But Our Standardized Test Scores are OK!)

Our schools focus on standardized testing which, for the most part, determine how adept students are in choosing among four possible “right answers” or “none of the above.” Now that has value! Or does it? Certainly our government thinks it does! Measurements in the form of standardized test scores are the way “performing schools” are […]

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by Charles C. Jett

Standardized Tests Do Not Measure “Critical Skills!”

Standardized tests have become a way of life. It is not because they are effective in measuring what students can do or what they know – – as the late Ted Sizer (Founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools) put it, “Standardized tests are perhaps useful only to predict how well a student might do […]

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