{"id":4013,"date":"2015-02-12T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2015-02-12T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:02:32","slug":"can-standardized-testing-just-be-tolerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4013","title":{"rendered":"Can Standardized Testing Just Be Tolerated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like a discussion starter for a faculty\/staff meeting or even a PTA group session, then a recent blog in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Education Week<\/span> may be a good source. The debate for standardized testing continues and usually divides educators and citizens into two camps: Do Not\u00a0Test and Do Test.<\/p>\n<p>The blog is in the February 11 issue of<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> Education Week<\/span> and is entitled &#8220;Standardized Test Is Bitter(But Necessary) Medicine&#8221; and is written by Cristine Duncan\u00a0Evans, a public school teacher in Baltimore City. The title alone should elicit some response in a staff\/faculty meeting and further reading in the blog will certainly raise the bar for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Evans supports her position in a professional format\u00a0with the need among other points,\u00a0to use testing to evaluate schools\/programs to &#8220;&#8230;figure out which schools are aren&#8217;t doing an adequate job of reaching students.&#8221; While she has a point, to what extent do we limit the testing to allow for instruction, etc, etc.\u00a0 Her other points should promote a lively discussion with your staff or PTA.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to access the entire blog, please go to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/teachers\/connecting-the-dots\/2015\/02\/standardized_testing_is_bitter.html?r=1059432200&amp;cmp=ENL-EU-RM&amp;preview=1\">http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/teachers\/connecting-the-dots\/2015\/02\/standardized_testing_is_bitter.html?r=1059432200&amp;cmp=ENL-EU-RM&amp;preview=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like a discussion starter for a faculty\/staff meeting or even a PTA group session, then a recent blog in Education Week may be a good source. The debate for standardized testing continues and usually divides educators and citizens into two camps: Do Not\u00a0Test and Do Test. The blog is in the February &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4013\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-proscons-for-standardized-testing","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}