High-Stakes Tests and Politics

To the Editor:

Your article "Scholars Say High-Stakes Tests Deserve a Failing Grade" (March 2) explored the technical limitations of high-stakes tests. However, many backers of these tests are aware of the problems and nonetheless remain committed to their use as a tool to regulate knowledge in schools and universities. ...

The use of tests to motivate achievement, retain children in grade, and define what knowledge will be taught in classrooms contradicts what we know from a

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