{"id":4385,"date":"2004-02-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2004-02-03T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T08:00:00","slug":"at-the-educational-testing-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4385","title":{"rendered":"at the Educational Testing Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Princeton, NJ, staying for 24 hours at the headquarters of the ETS, the people who bring you the SAT and your other favorite standardized tests. I&#8217;m here with a group of civic education advocates, trying to learn more about testing. A system of high-stakes testing may be good or bad for education in general (I&#8217;m genuinely unsure about that). For <i>civic <\/i>education, it poses three problems:<\/p>\n<p>1) Civic and political knowledge is usually not tested, at least not with high-stakes exams. What isn&#8217;t tested, isn&#8217;t taught. But even enthusiastic proponents of standards and accountability are leery about piling a civics exam on top of all the other tests. There is thus a serious danger that we will lose civics from the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>2) Civic knowledge, while important, isn&#8217;t all we care about. We also want students to develop civic attitudes, values, habits, skills, and behaviors. Yet we don&#8217;t know how to test these things.<\/p>\n<p>3) A good approach to civic education is to involve students, teachers, staff, parents, and community-members in the governance of schools. But to the extent that important policy issues are determined by standards and tests, there are fewer important decisions to be made locally.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, there may be ways to infuse some civic content into the existing system, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m at ETS to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Princeton, NJ, staying for 24 hours at the headquarters of the ETS, the people who bring you the SAT and your other favorite standardized tests. I&#8217;m here with a group of civic education advocates, trying to learn more about testing. A system of high-stakes testing may be good or bad for education in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}