https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml How standardized testing negatively affects equity en-us 2020-10-13 18:24:37 UTC 2020-10-13 20:09:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4cb.png romalley12 https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826254009 The push for high scores requires a mounting need for test prep, forcing teachers to abandon creativity and individualized education. According to one report, 60 percent of teachers responded that standardized test prep either dictated or substantially affected their teaching. That’s over half of what they taught. Also, affluent families have the means to pay for tutoring and other classes to help their children do well on tests. Students from less affluent homes, especially if they live in poverty, do not generally have the same kind of access to learning these skills. ]]> 2020-10-13 18:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826254009 romalley12 https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826274893 Alarmingly, 44% of American students in grades 6-12 do not feel a sense of self-worth at school. Philadelphia high school junior Nikki Adeli knows firsthand the challenges that young people face navigating standardized tests. Through the story of her own real-world educational experiences beginning in Mississippi by way of Iran, Nikki reminds us all that the value and purpose of schools is to grow a citizen not produce a good test-taker.]]> 2020-10-13 18:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826274893 romalley12 https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826376438 Young people of color, particularly those from low-income families, have suffered the most as
the explosion of high-stakes standardized testing in U.S. public education has undermined equity
and school quality.i
Positive assessment alternatives that will help these students and their
schools do exist. They must be fought for and won in the policy arena. ]]> 2020-10-13 19:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826376438 romalley12 https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826422236 "Teaching for understanding is what we are supposed to be doing… (but) the bottom line here is that all they really want to know is how are these kids doing on the tests? …They want me to teach in a way that they can't test, except that I'm held accountable to the test It's a Catch 22…" ]]> 2020-10-13 19:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826422236 romalley12 https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826447560 The companies that create the most important state and national exams also publish textbooks that contain many of the answers. Unfortunately, low-income school districts can’t afford to buy them.]]> 2020-10-13 19:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826447560 romalley12 https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826474684 Ibram X. Kendi, professor and author of two books confronting racism in the United States, discusses his new book, "How to Be an Antiracist." He talks about the racist underpinnings of standardized tests and their development as tools for prominent eugenicists to prove the intellectual inferiority of the poor, women and particularly descendents of Africans. The tests, he argues, blatantly discriminate against people of color under a veneer of scientific objectivity. He says, "These tests became the evidence they have been looking for, really, for hundreds of years to prove that people of color and poor people and women were intellectually inferior."]]> 2020-10-13 19:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826474684 romalley12 https://padlet.com/romalley12/2r7635n43v3fwoml/wish/826504573 The problem with America's college entrance exam.

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