I’ve written several times in recent months about a growing movement [1]by parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, students and others to protest the use of standardized tests for high-stakes purposes, says Valeria Strauss, columnist for the Washington Post. Here’s a list of 10 things that people can do to counter the damaging effects of high-stakes standardized testing. It was written by Ruth Silverberg, an associate professor in the Education Department of the College of Staten Island CUNY.
The list of 10: 1. Don’t brag if you or your children got high scores on any high stakes tests, including the SAT or ACT. This can help dispel the faulty idea that standardized tests are a valid measure of learning…