some thoughts about student testing

"Making students accountable for test scores works well on a bumper sticker and it allows many politicians to look good by saying that they will not tolerate failure. But it represents a hollow promise. Far from improving education, high- stakes testing marks a major retreat from fairness, from accuracy, from quality, and from equity." - Sen. Paul Wellstone (1944-2002)

a similar -- and different -- take on this topic.