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		king_jester on Feb 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A warning to college profs from a high school teac... This is a bit of a distortion. The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) doesn't oppose testing wholesale, but rather the use of standardized test results to generate new policy, something that test makers explicitly said their tests are not useful for: http://www.uft.org/teaching/hot-topics/testing

greedo on Feb 12, 2013 [–]

And that's crazy. Why wouldn't you want test results to affect policy? I posit that the UFT is being a bit disingenuous.

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