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 Or if the teachers can effectively teach the students?  Testing holds schools accountable.  Without them, parents will be kept further in the dark as to how much learning is really taking place relative to national standards.  Whenever I hear educators rail against testing, what I really hear are educators who want to reduce oversight and transparency in their classrooms.[/quote]

Why give a test, if you aren't going to do anything differently with the results? We have years and years of data on our students starting at Kindergarten saying they are behind where they should be, but nothing for those students ever changes.

I don't have any problem with testing students to hold teachers accountable IF you let the teachers determine the curriculum and the method of teaching. As it is, my students do make substantial progress, but only because I pay lip service to the county selected teaching curriculum and methods, but actually teach in a way that I know to be effective.[/quote]

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