Editorial: Moving away from standardized tests

By Mon Valley Independent

The results are in from the latest round of statewide exams for Pennsylvania students, and thankfully they aren’t as important to the children’s future as they used to be.

An educational culture of teaching to the test emerged with passage of the federal No Child Left Behind law in 2001, but that’s slipping away as our state moves to adopt new ways of measuring success in the classroom.

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