Testing for 12th-graders

Education Week writes about a plan for 12th-graders in 11 states to take part in a reading and math test, something along the lines of the National Assessment of Educational Progress already given under the No Child Left Behind Act to fourth- and eighth-graders. The volunteer states have not yet been announced.

In an article on a related topic, Education Week also reports on a group of educators and scholars who are calling for a stronger liberal arts and science curriculum in public schools. The group, called Common Core, says that arts, languages and history are essential.

-- Mary MacVean

Comments

[Daisey]

Personally as a student coming from teh LAUSD System i thinking testing is just a bunch of c#$%. It is plainly a way of getting money to benefit the school. But my question is where does all that money go? because I dont see it being invested in a better learning community.

Plainly a believe that testing only serves fo rhte purpose of putting the schools on the spot. Its just a simple way to categorize us all as good or bad. But what people dont seem to realize is that half of teh students taking all these pathethic test dont even try because they know that at the end the results are just used for critizicing.