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...NCLB law comes up for reauthorization next year, testing critics are quick to point to the extensive delays. "Nowhere have schools stopped functioning because of the missing test scores. But they also don't know if they've moved up or down the performance ladder," said education advocate Julie Woestehoff, executive director of the Chicago-based non-profit Parents United for Responsible Education. She hopes snafus like Illinois' may actually help in rethinking the law's parameters to include other forms of assessments in evaluating schools. "These testing errors show the need for multiple measures like student grades and performance...
...obsessed with boosting test scores rather than individual student development. Teachers, the critics say, are pushed to spend too much time preparing students for standardized tests. "You're not going to cut it in this world if all you can do is take multiple-choice tests," says Julie Woestehoff, executive director of Parents United for Responsible Education, an advocacy group that opposes Daley's takeover. "There's no real education going on here...
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