Teachers have been calling attention to the problem of overtesting in public schools for years, and this weekend the Obama administration finally responded by releasing a plan to reduce testing, saying no more than two percent of classroom instruction time should be spent on tests. (blogcea.org)
Mike Petrilli has written about how concerns about overtesting have been driven by the federal government's insistence that states evaluate all teachers in ways that include student achievement data. (educationnext.org)
«High Stakes Testing: Overtesting in America's Public Schools.» (thoughtco.com)