Word: tested
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...first things I learned in my teaching workshops was, "these kids have to be able to pass the FCAT [Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test]." Subsequently, I received a substantial number of handouts, collectively titled "Taking the FCAT out of the Bag." In these pages, I was assured, I would find guidance to success in the classroom. The expectation was that I would conduct myself according to the guide...
Once these aspiring educators enter the teaching sphere, their carefully developed approaches are stonewalled--they are asked to conform to the increasingly rote systems of teaching. The attempts of education programs like Summerbridge to foster novel approaches to teaching are continually nullified by the teach-to-the-test approach that transforms teachers into machines. Richard L. Wade, Headmaster of the prestigious Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, refers to this trend as "packaging our schools." This process of frustrating the ambitions of would-be teachers perpetuates and validates the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...
These problems, however, are purely external, and say nothing about the emotional trauma which this testing system puts students through. America's most famous standardized test, the SAT (presently named Scholastic Assessment Test, formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test), provides the best example of the potential emotional harm to students. According to a report in last month's Newsweek, the long-term effects of the SAT are not negligible. This takes into account the domino-effect theories linking SAT scores to success in life, and the wide range of fields (including unlikely areas such as real estate) that are indirectly influenced...
...dehumanizing teachers and demoralizing students, standardized testing unintentionally contributes to the state of decadence present in American education. Ridiculous as it sounds today, Harvard University originally championed the SAT (the first major standardized test) as a means to achieving a classless society. However, the system implemented has achieved other, unintended purposes. Instead of the mechanism leading society towards utopia, testing has become an absurd beast ravaging American academia...
George W. Bush's critics are crowing over his performance in a foreign policy quiz. TIME Daily invites all those smarty-pants, and our readers, to test their working knowledge of eight situations crucial to U.S. foreign policy. (Click on each question to get the correct answer...