Thompson: Does "Race" Round 3 Represent A Shift On Testing?

Has the Duncan team finally turned the corner and begun to understand the real limits of high stakes testing and accountability?  Probably not, but there's always hope.  About the next round of Race To The Top Dana Goldstein is cautiously optimistic about the administration's push for low-stakes pre-school assessments that measure children’s social, emotional, physical and artistic, as well as academic readiness for kindergarten. Goldstein urges Duncan to listen to the social science and "use test scores to help teachers better target instruction toward individual children, not to reward or punish either individual children or adults in the system."- JT (@drjohnthompson) Image via.

 

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[Sandra]

Shift? I don't see a shift, I see expansion of more and more testing, data collected from birth to college.

[john]

Goldstein explained that she was "cautiously optimistic" and she summarized concerns by some researchers. I personally don't have the expertise to evaluate that issue. On one hand, common sense and common decency would say that with young children you don't take testing to extremes that could not be contemplated ...

Never mind!