Fighting the White Knight: Saving Education from Misguided Testing, Inappropriate Standards, and Other Good Intentions Turner Jocelyn

In her final year of teaching, Jocelyn Turner spent over one-fifth of each week administering mandatory tests and quizzes. While she was testing, she could not teach. She spent the remaining time preparing students to take those specific exams, regardless of the background knowledge and preparedness of individual students.

It was a rare and lucky child who fit the profile of the year's onslaught of tests.Since No Child Left Behind, US schools have been burying students in tests and then drawing often misguided conclusions--when sometimes the only conclusion anyone ought to draw is that student X obviously spent hours staring at a set of questions he or she did not Teachers were expected to present the same Common Core-based, grade-specific material to all their students at the same time-- whether Jake was reading at a first-grade level or Taylor at a ninth-grade level.