Tests Flunk Out.

AuthorSteinberg, Jacques
PositionProtest against standardized tests in Massachusetts

A group of students in Massachusetts are just saying no to standardized tests. Concerned that these exams are unfair, hundreds of sophomores last month refused to take the first in a series of statewide tests intended to evaluate students and schools--and some were suspended or given scores of zero. (Next year, sophomores will have to pass tests in math and English to graduate.) The Massachusetts boycott was the latest in a series of protests against the...

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