The fight to put an end to standardized testing was given new wind on Thursday, April 3 as Alfie Kohn, described by Time Magazine as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s ...
The province’s elementary teachers have voted to create an educational video to show the “negative effects” standardized testing has had on the public education system here and around the world. The ...
Paige MacPherson is associate director of education policy at the Fraser Institute. Despite opposition from teacher unions, most British Columbia parents of kindergarten to Grade 12 children support ...
Michael Zwaagstra is a public high-school teacher and a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. As Alberta lifts COVID-19 restrictions, parents across the province are eager for a return to normalcy ...
Standardized tests claim to measure student learning, academic achievement, and college readiness. What they actually measure is pattern recognition and the stamina to sit still for three hours and ...
Provincial governments are putting a lower priority on standardized testing of public school students at the very time it’s needed to assess where their education systems stand in the wake of the ...
When the College Board canceled SAT testing in 2020, hundreds of colleges adopted test-optional admissions policies for that fall. The Urban Institute reported that the number of four-year colleges ...
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