[YEP-DC] YEP-DC Blog Post: What the SAT Overhaul Teaches Us About Standardized Testing

There's a lot going wrong with standardized testing, Recess blogger CJ Libassi writes: Cheating scandals, inadequate supports for students who need them, and the crazed culture that has been built up in schools. But rather than ditching the tests, the education community should take those criticisms and learn something from them. "Too often, the shortcomings of many of our current tests polarize those in education to simplified positions both for and against testing that see it either as a panacea or a poison. But the truth is somewhere in the middle," CJ writes. "Standardized tests do face real shortcomings, but those shortcomings shouldn’t be confused as evidence for abandoning testing altogether. They should be reasons to fix the tests."

See the full post, "What the SAT Overhaul Teaches Us About Standardized Testing: Fix It, Don't Scrap It," here: http://www.youngedprofessionals.org/1/post/2014/03/what-the-sat-overhaul-teaches-us-about-standardized-testing-fix-it-dont-scrap-it.html

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