The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better by Dan Koretz

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Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Almost thirty years before I started writing this book, I predicted that test-based accountability — then in its early stages, and still far milder than the system burdening schools today — wouldn’t succeed. I said that many educators would face only three options: cheat, find other ways to cut corners, or fail. As successive waves of “reform” ratcheted up the pressure to raise scores, the risks only became worse, and others and I repeated the warning.

Educators have done all three. I take no comfort in having been right."

The Testing Charade

In his new book, Professor Dan Koretz looks at how test-based accountability has become an end in itself in American education, unmoored from clear thinking on what should be measured in school, harming students and corrupting the ideals of teaching.

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