PROS
- Every student measured against same narrow, irrelevant set of standards
- Holds teachers personally accountable for success of large, monolithic testing organizations
- Western tradition of critical thinking best embodied in bubble-sheet format
- Keeps students quiet for upwards of 90 minutes
- Repeated testing carefully develops teachers’ cheating skills
- Only biased against kids who couldn’t afford college anyway
- Data. More data.
CONS
- There are easier ways to measure parents’ income
- Takes up time that could be used to teach toward additional standardized tests
- Standardized test–scoring machines kill and maim more than 200 workers annually
- Allows U.S. students to be compared with those of other developed nations
- Fails to measure attractiveness, which will have far greater impact on future success or failure
- Students may in fact become too prepared for future
- Probably could be more profitable
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