Education Secretary: Standardized Tests Should No Longer Be a 'Hammer'
But states won't ease accountability requirements until federal law tells them to do so, policy experts say.
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But states won't ease accountability requirements until federal law tells them to do so, policy experts say.
Nearly 2,000 colleges and universities across the U.S. have publicly announced that they will not require the SAT or American College Testing for admission in fall 2022.
“When I was growing up, I was never a great standardized test-taker,” Princeton graduate Michelle Obama said.
Share this: A fifth grader at a school in New York takes the New York State English Language Arts exam. Some testing opponents say testing during a pandemic will add to the stress students and teachers are under and cut into this year’s already constrained instructional time. Credit: John Paraskevas /Newsday RM via Getty Images The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. When schools in Columbus, Ohio, opened up classrooms this fall for the state...