Tying standardized test scores to teacher "evaluations" and pay is a bunch of ignorant tripe. As the piece notes, many teachers teach subjects not subject to standardized testing such as music, art, physical education, and special education.
More important, though, is the fact few students take the standardized tests that seriously. They tend to rush through the tests, checking off or bubbling in any old answer.
As long as students don't take the tests seriously, and they never will, the rest of the country shouldn't, either.
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