standardized testing

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/3/2023
  

  8th Grade History Scores Have Plunged

  Are partisan efforts to restrict the content of history instruction to blame? A shift of resources to STEM and reading? 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  4/24/2023
  

  New Book Challenges not Just AP Course Content, but Role of Courses in the Education System

  Annie Abrams argues that the prevalence of Advanced Placement courses in American high schools distorts the goals of education and shortchanges students from experiencing higher-level learning in the humanities. 

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• SOURCE: Undark
  12/14/2022
  

  With its Eugenics Roots, does Standardized Testing Have Any Place in Education Today?

  by Deborah Blum

  A researcher discovered a pattern in the experimental vetting of SAT test questions in the 1990s: questions on which Black students outscored White students in trials were usually excluded from future tests. This practice is linked back to the roots of IQ testing in the eugenics movement.

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• SOURCE: National Education Association
  3/20/2022
  

  The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing

  Standardized testing originated when public schooling was expanding and eugenicists were arguing that many immigrant and nonwhite groups were not capable of educational achievement. Tests were developed to sustain this viewpoint.