{"id":12442,"date":"2013-09-16T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T12:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12442"},"modified":"2013-09-16T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T12:55:42","slug":"for-reform-in-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12442","title":{"rendered":"for reform of testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/insiders\/education\/common-core-s-testing-woes-20130916\">National Journal<\/a>, Fawn Johnson reports that the Common Core standards for English and math have become controversial because of testing. &#8220;Now that it&#8217;s time for states to actually measure how their students are doing, it&#8217;s a lot harder to gloss over the problems with feel-good talking points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/insiders\/education\/common-core-s-testing-woes-20130916#comment-1046526314\"> invited response<\/a>, I argue that the existing standardized tests are bad&#8211;19th century tools&#8211;and the Common Core offers the opportunity to improve them. Progress may be halting, controversial, and painful, but I still favor innovation. In my comment, I argue that the existing tests are bad because they are separated from learning; overly standardized; completely private (so that they don&#8217;t assess how children communicate and collaborate <em>with each other<\/em>, even though that&#8217;s actually the purpose of English\/Language Arts); and secret in ways that reduce legitimacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the National Journal, Fawn Johnson reports that the Common Core standards for English and math have become controversial because of testing. &#8220;Now that it&#8217;s time for states to actually measure how their students are doing, it&#8217;s a lot harder to gloss over the problems with feel-good talking points.&#8221; In an invited response, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12457,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions\/12457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}