K-12 Students’ Tests

                  

Questions have been asked in recent years whether testing of K-to-- 12 students and even their often maligned teachers are bona fide.

                       

Parents, usually among immigrant groups, who are not fully familiar with English, are protesting that standardized collective tests of students and classes are not truly effective nor fair.

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True, America's test-based accountability systems have not increased student ability.

                       

One critical report’s author claimed "there is widespread teaching to the test and gaming of the systems that reflects a wasteful use of resources and leads to inaccurate or inflated measures of performance."

                       

The basic argument of these groups is that test-makers are not fully aware of the society the students are from. The perspective here is limited to the immigrants of today.

                       

But the same argument could have been used decades ago when other immigrants arrived. Their children also suffered from similar problems, but with better results.

                       

The solution seems to be in teaching English quickly instead of the current.mishmash of dual languages. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)