11 problems created by the standardized testing obsession

posted on April 22 - 08:24 AM
By Joe - TexasISD.com
 

Ron Maggiano is a veteran teacher who won the Disney Teacher Award for innovation and creativity in 2005 and the American Historical Association’s Beveridge Family Teaching Prize for outstanding K-12 teaching in 2006. After a 33-year teaching career, he resigned last year from West Springfield High School in Fairfax County, Va.,  where he taught social studies. In this post last year, he explained why he was leaving a job he had long loved: