Should students be tested for academic progress during a pandemic?
December 21, 2020
Should students take standardized tests like the Smarter Balanced Assessments during the pandemic? Equally importantly, how would they take them if some students are at home learning online and some missing in action altogether? California’s State Board of Education has already decreed that students will take shorter, modified versions of the Smarter Balanced tests. But does that even make sense? Or will the yet-to-be-named Secretary of Education in the Biden administration give states another waiver to pass on administering these tests for the second year in a row?