MTA members are joining with parents, students and educators to push back against the overuse of standardized testing — which reduces teaching time, narrows the curriculum, limits creativity, adds to student stress and misuses scarce education dollars.
Are we stifling students' creativity with so much high-stakes testing? MTA educators share their stories about the effects of high-stakes testing on students.
Parents, students and educators in Massachusetts and across the country are pushing back against high-stakes standardized tests. Teachers assess students all the time to guide instruction. These assessments are not the problem. Rather, concerns involve the excessive amount of time and money spent on externally created standardized testing and the high stakes attached to the results.
Source: Defending the Early Years and FairTest
Christopher Tienken, Seton Hall U.
