https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47532170

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47532170
Read this and weep on so many levels with a story with so many strands…. For me, let’s focus on the abuse of accommodations for the SAT and ACT. Wealthy parents get doctors to write letters that the child is disabled and voila, according to this story, the child gets extra time–maybe time and a half or the right to come back the next day to finish the test. Really? What can this test possibly mean? how can it possibly be a standardized test? It can’t be.

The question I’m left with is: when will these companies stop timing anyone? Since these tests are no longer standardized, why do we still use them and pay so much for that priviledge….  Ending the timing of these tests will avoid the next scandal on this front.

Then we can move on to all the other scandals in this story. Read it and weep, indeed.

 

 

About Miriam

Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA—an expert in public education, focused on special education law— is a lawyer, author, speaker, consultant, and reformer. For more than 35 years, Miriam worked with educators, parents, policy makers, and citizens to translate complex legalese into plain English and focus on good practices for children. Now, she focuses her passion on reforming special education, with her new book, Special Education 2.0—Breaking Taboos to Build a NEW Education Law. Presentations include those at the AASA Conference, Orange County (CA), Boston College (MA), CADRE (OR), and the Fordham Institute (DC). Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Education Next, Hoover Digest, The University of Chicago Law Review on line, DianeRavitch.net, and The Atlantic Monthly on line.

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