Teacher Dennis Danziger passed along this eye-opening article that starts like this:
Standardized testing has become central to education policy in the United States. After dramatically expanding in the wake of the No Child Left Behind Act, testing has been further enshrined by the Obama administration’s $3.4 billion “Race to the Top” grants. Given the ongoing debate over these policies, it might be useful to hear about the experiences of a hidden sector of the education workforce: those of us who make our living scoring these tests. Our viewpoint is instructive, as it reveals the many contradictions and absurdities built into a test-scoring system run by for-profit companies and beholden to school administrators and government officials with a stake in producing inflated numbers.
Read the rest of it on the website Truthout: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer
Posted Wednesday 01 December 2010
by: Dan DiMaggio
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