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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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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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.
High-stakes standardized testing flies in the face of creative teaching and learning and everything that makes America great: our creativity, our individualism, our ingenuity and problem-solving.
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.
There are extensive curriculums in the other home nations - less prescriptive in Scotland - but only England retains the system of "high stakes" mandatory testing.
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