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Amazing Spoken Word Poet Breaks Down Why We Must Push Back Against Society's Definition of Success

Students! How many equations, subjects, dates did you memorize just before an exam never to use again?

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Atlanta Cheating Scandal Lesson: We Must Return to Real Teaching and Learning

Achievement tests were not designed for the purposes of promoting or grading students, evaluating teachers, or evaluating schools.

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Attention Schools: You Are Now Entering Standardized Testing Mode

Teachers become cobweb sweepers, still learning to balance between "What do you MEAN you don’t remember this?" and "Ohyougotitgoodletsmoveon."

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For True Democracy, We Need More Than Education by the Numbers

Freedom, dignity, and democracy can't be weighed and measured like a test score or Wall Street stock.

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Students Know it, Too: There's No Such Thing as Standardized Learning

Students at Garfield High School in Seattle don't want to take the MAP standardized test either.

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Conscientious Objection to Standardized Testing and Bucking Convention in My Classroom

Listening and working together is surely the best way we can support teachers and students at our neighborhood schools.

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Why America's Prep Schools Aren't Following Arne Duncan's Public School Education Reforms

If the reforms mandated by Departments of Education were so fantastic, prep schools would be implementing them.

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Our Education System Isn't Broken, It's Designed to Create Winners and Losers

Schools intentionally and deliberately under-educate significant portions of our society.

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Learning Should Be About Students, Not Tests

Schools, and the students within them, are not standardized. The way they are assessed shouldn't be either.

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Data King Nate Silver Isn't Sold on Evaluating Teachers With Test Scores

In a Reddit AMA, Silver expresses his concern about the practice.

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More Creativity, Less Standardization: Why You Should Support National Opt Out Day

Parents, educators, students, and social activists are fighting back against standardized testing on January 7th, National Opt Out Day

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Five Ways To Use 300 More Instructional Hours In A Year

There are other ways to use the extra time other than test prep.

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What Do Students Think About Standardized Testing? A College Freshman Plans to Find Out

"Listen" will document the emotional toll testing takes on students.

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More Colleges and Universities Dropping SAT or ACT Admissions Requirement

Schools are still getting qualified applicants without either test.

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Where Does Mitt Romney Really Stand on Standardized Testing?

Romney doesn't know of a better way to evaluate students than high stakes tests.

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Why Is the Most Popular TED Talk of All Time About Education?

What creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson has to say keeps resonating with us.