randman writes:
The testing craze to improve public schools is bad because it really is not a great indicator. For example, my daughter's high school already does very well putting students into top colleges, but they have to improve every year to get an A rating. After so many years, it becomes hard to improve, and the year they didn't, there was all this pressure and teaching to the test, instead of educating imo.
At last, randman, something we can agree on, though we find different consequences objectionable.
Your daughter was discomfitted by too many tests; students in already poorly funded inner city schools become even more poorly educated because those schools, strangely, can't improve despite the loss of funding. The presence of voucher schools would only compound the problem.