Champions and Dissidents express very different opinions
about standardized testing.Dissidents are much more likely to say the amount of time spent on
testing is «too high» (61 percent) compared with
Champions (19 percent).
In 2010, Diane Ravitch, a renowned education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong
about key educational policies she once
championed, namely
standardized testing and school choice.