Charter schools and high-stakes testing are largely advocated by the same people, and high-stakes testing is often part of the charter school evaluation process.
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In fact, one of the reasons many teachers oppose high-stakes testing is for this very reason.
The amount of homework, the high-stakes testing, and other stress factors was leading to anxiety and depression at home.
Right now high-stakes testing and crude top-down thinking is hampering both the public schools and the charter school movement.
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Teachers oppose other reforms, like high-stakes testing, that I think are bad ideas.
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But the problems with our schools long predate the high-stakes testing fad, and they will remain after we do away with them.
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Obama recently made remarks casting doubt on the usefulness of high-stakes testing.
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This is one of many bad incentives created by high-stakes testing, and by placing too much faith in the test as a means to improve outcomes.
This means we can argue against high-stakes testing (against the current reform trend) but in favor of reforms to teacher tenure, compensation and so forth (pro-reform positions).
While school boards in Kingston, Saratoga Springs, New Paltz and other districts have adopted largely symbolic resolutions opposing high-stakes testing, others have scheduled pep rallies to stoke enthusiasm for the tests.
Tim Lee has an excellent post on charters and high-stakes testing at his blog (riffing off of another really good post from Aaron Swartz) which I found myself in turns agreeing and disagreeing with.
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The fact is, such an approach threatens the status-quo in more deeply fundamental ways even than high-stakes standardized testing.
There are extensive curriculums in the other home nations - less prescriptive in Scotland - but only England retains the system of "high stakes" mandatory testing.
But some researchers believe that the generally steady improvement since 1990 means American students are definitely on the right track, especially in this era of high-stakes educational testing.
But high-stakes standardized testing actually pushes these schools to destroy themselves, wiping out the programs that actually do deliver value to these high-aptitude students and instead focusing on teaching to the tests.
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