The provision provides the department with $7 million to develop standardized tests to replace those developed by Smarter Balanced...
The move has Missouri education officials scrambling to figure out how they’ll test students next spring. Not testing students would violate federal law.
The move comes amid mounting criticism nationwide from teachers and education groups about the high-stakes nature of standardized testing and the amount of time it takes away from instruction.
In Missouri, 67 percent of more than 5,000 teachers responded in a survey last month that the state places too much emphasis on standardized tests. More than half of teachers responded that the Smarter Balanced tests this spring took up more classroom instruction time than past tests....
"Our bigger concern is we have started to see year after year there are consequences to too much hype on a particular set of standardized tests," said Otto Fajen, a lobbyist for the Missouri National Education Association, the state's largest teachers union. "We're trying to figure out a system that will work better.
P.S.
Susan Ohanian - When I was in charge of a small high school program for rough-neck kids the 'regular' school had excluded from their campus, I established three standards:1) No cursing.
2) No dope.
3) Read half an hour a day in material unrelated to school requirements.
The only one I failed to enforce was #1. That one usually went something like this
Yes, every expletive anywhere in the classroom was accompanied by a taagged-on "Sorry, Miz O."
F- - k you!--oops! Sorry, Miz O.
More important, 15- and 16-year-olds reported that in a month in our school, they'd read more than in their entire school careers.
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