Great post at Why Homeschool last week on standardized tests and what they mean and our attitudes toward them. These tests can provide very useful information on what our kids have mastered and what they still need to work on. In a homeschool environment that’s a practical way to use them.

However, in a classroom, teaching to the test may replace mastery of subject material with mastery of test taking. It’s taking time for schools to line up their teaching of subject material with what is required by No Child Left Behind.

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