Sentences with phrase «perhaps irreparable harm»

At worst, and very likely, NEAP and all massive testing program, have done severe and perhaps irreparable harm to the nation.

The state - mandated tests now being used are so insufficient they «are causing educational harm, perhaps irreparable harm, to thousands of American children,» W. James Popham, an emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the chairman of the Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment, argued at a press conference here.