Too much testing in California's schools?
Another sympathetic article about over-testing of students in the San Francisco Gate online. The article does a good job of describing the "gantlet" of tests that school students may experience, although some of the tests that eat up so much time are not mandatory (such as the AP exams). A spokesman for Fair Test is once again quoted, this time with a silly comment about measuring kids and fattening cattle. California may be "ahead of the curve", and much too enthusiastic about bringing on the tests, but California's educators have not claimed (I hope) that the tests in and of themselves make kids smarter, as his comment suggests.