Commentary: By criticizing standardized tests, what teachers unions are really pushing for is an end to any real measure of student performance.
,” shows grade inflation growing significantly since 2016 and rising sharply during the pandemic. The study reveals that since 2020, even students at the 25th percentile of ACT performance, which is well below average, received better than a 3.0 GPA. This means their schools awarded them more A grades than C’s, D’s and F’s combined. Meanwhile, ACT composite scores declined during the study period and fell sharply during the pandemic.
.” What teachers unions are really driving for is an end to any real measure of evaluating student performance and, thereby, school and teacher performance.Katherine Prange: Students bore the brunt of COVID-19 and are feeling its effects on their educationThis has taken on an added urgency with the disastrous consequences remote learning has had on student learning after school closings forced by teachers unions, as well as students’' social-emotional and physical health.
This bill of horribles will have its most damaging impact on the children of poor families, disproportionately minorities, whose parents are less able in the current system to vote with their feet. They will suffer the most as they are prisoners of a public education system in which the quality of their school is determined by income and ZIP code. Perhaps nowhere has grade inflation been more apparent than in Chicago Public Schools.
Of course, CTU leadership and its supporters and their brethren nationally are pressing their districts and states to move away from high-stakes testing altogether, even though there are few consequences for failure. Critics of state testing claim that such exams carry a damaging presumption that public school students aren’t proficient. But the tests measure proficiency.
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