White House acknowledges own role in ‘over-testing of American students as Obama says such evaluations should not be education’s ‘be-all and finish-all’The Obama administration on Saturday called for cuts in standardized tests for school pupils and acknowledged its own contribution to the problem of “over-testing”, one of the hottest topics in education policy.
President Obama urged schools to cap standardized testing at 2% of classroom time. He also took responsibility for the federal government’s creation of a culture in which testing had become the “be-all and finish-all” in pre-college education.
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Source: theguardian.com