{"id":464,"date":"2006-02-14T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2006-02-14T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T18:05:00","slug":"in-the-news-npr-commission-mulls-standardized-testing-in-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/in-the-news-npr-commission-mulls-standardized-testing-in-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: NPR : Commission Mulls Standardized Testing in Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5205322\">NPR : Commission Mulls Standardized Testing in Colleges<\/a>&#151;this was a nice story, but I was bothered by the arguments that the various people who were interviewed gave. The problem with standardized testing is that standardized testing doesn&#8217;t work. It&#8217;s not the range of kinds of programs and schools or the fact that there are not national standards. It&#8217;s that testing is NOT the most effective way to improve student learning. I wish that instead of the folks they talked to they had found someone in an education school who could speak to the real problems with this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR : Commission Mulls Standardized Testing in Colleges&#151;this was a nice story, but I was bothered by the arguments that the various people who were interviewed gave. The problem with standardized testing is that standardized testing doesn&#8217;t work. It&#8217;s not the range of kinds of programs and schools or the fact that there are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}