Florida standardized science tests are a disaster – Boing Boing<\/a>
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Standardized tests are a necessary evil, to some degree, and have been around for many, many decades (cough). But in the past decade or so — certainly with the advent of Dubya's "No Child Left Behind" but increasingly amidst a flurry of "school accountability" programs — they have taken on greater and greater importance for … Continue reading “The test you can't teach to”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8089,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/when_worldviews.html","url_meta":{"origin":27434,"position":0},"title":"When Worldviews Collide","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-May-05 7:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"You scored as Cultural Creative. 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