Wendy Lecker has
advice for parents: if you want to know how your child is doing, ask the teacher. Don't rely on standardized tests. The teachers sees his or her work daily, the teacher knows more than the test reveals
She writes:
"Even standardized college placement tests, tests ostensibly designed to measure "college readiness," fail miserably at that task — with real and damaging consequences for students.
"College remediation is often used as a weapon by education reformers. Overstating college remediation rates was one of the tactics used by Arne Duncan to foment hysteria about the supposedly sorry state of America's public schools and justify imposing the Common Core and its accompanying tests nationwide. As retired award-winning New York principal Carol Burris has written, while Duncan and his allies claimed that the college remediation rate is 40 percent, data from the National Center on Education Statistics show that the actual percentage is 20 percent.
"Exaggeration is not the only problem with college remediation. Many of the students placed in remedial classes in college do not even belong there.
Researchers have found that one-quarter to one-third of students in college remedial courses were wrongly assigned.
"Once again, non-standardized, human assessments of a student's learning are more helpful than standardized tests."
Lecker concludes:
"The key to ensuring and determining college readiness is clearly not high-stakes error-prone standardized tests. If politicians really want to understand how to prepare our children for college, maybe they should try a new — for them- approach and consult experts with a great track record of knowing what makes kids college-ready. Maybe they should ask some teachers."
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