TRUTH ABOUT TESTING

With public and political demand for educational accountability never higher, educators are under enormous pressure to raise students&rsquo, scores on standardized achievement tests. Policymakers are backing large-scale, high-stakes testing programs as the best way to determine which schools are failing and which schools are succeeding, and the only way to ensure the quality of students&rsquo, schooling. Nonsense, says distinguished educator and author W. James Popham. In The Truth About Testing