Here are a couple of Peter Campbell’s characterizations of No Child Left Behind, US legislation that prizes the use of standardized tests to evaluate the quality of learning, teaching and schools.
No Public School Left Standing
And, take a look at Gerald Bracey’s Seven Deadly Absurdities of No Child Left Behind. Among many other disastrous aspects of NCLB, Bracey reminds us of something Donald Campbell noted many years ago: the more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision making, the more the indicator and the users are likely to become corrupted.
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