Title: Washington Post
Headings: Confirmed: Standardized testing has taken over our schools. But who’s to blame?
Confirmed: Standardized testing has taken over our schools. But who’s to blame?
Here are the full recommendations in the report:

Content: Really? Individual schools and teachers forced kids to take standardized tests? They passed laws or set up funding contests that required or promoted the use of of standardized test scores to evaluate teachers? For years now state and federal policymakers have known that kids are being saddled with too many mandated standardized tests. It wasn’t until teachers and parents and principals and superintendents began making strong waves that they finally started to agree. Blaming individual schools and teachers seems way beyond the point. The new report included preliminary recommendations that call for retaining current annual tests in core subjects but eliminating redundant or low-quality tests. The full recommendations are below. Here are the key findings taken from the report, which, again, will come as no surprise to many in the education community: Based on the Council’s survey of member districts, its analysis of district testing calendars, interviews, and its review and analysis of federal, state, and locally mandated assessments, this study found: