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THE TEST: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing—But You Don’t Have To Be
“Using real—and often quite moving—stories, Anya Kamenetz shows teachers, parents, administrators, and students how to survive, even thrive, in an education system that many understandably believe needs a course correction.”
—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive
A child is more than a number. But in the last twenty years, states and districts have dramatically increased standardized testing, to an estimated 113 tests by the time students graduate. This spring, tens of millions of students in 44 states will be getting ready to take Common Core-aligned state tests for the first time. In an environment where students are already spending up to 28% of their instructional time on test preparation, these tests are going to be even harder; the scores are predicted to drop off the “Common Core cliff”, at least 25 percentage points.
How do we stop the madness? Can we preserve a space for self-directed learning and development, while also asking all kids to make the mark? Renowned for her commentary on our country’s education system, Anya Kamenetz examines this dilemma, and provides a strategy for how to solve it. THE TEST is the essential book making sense of the changing education landscape.
Event Details
March 26, 2015 | Institute for the Future (map)
6:00 pm | Doors Open for Networking
6:30 pm | Conversation on THE TEST – followed by Q&A
8:00 pm | Close
About Anya Kamenetz
Anya is NPR’s lead digital education reporter. She’s the author of two previous book about education, Generation Debt and DIY U. She is a former senior writer for Fast Company, has a nationally syndicated column with Tribune Media, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN.com, Slate, Newsweek, O: The Oprah Magazine, and a wide variety of other publications. She has won two national awards from the Education Writers Association and appeared in the documentaries Generation Next, Default, and Ivory Tower. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter and can be found online at AnyaKamenetz.net.
About the Future of Learning at IFTF
This event is part of IFTF’s Future of Learning Program, which examines the next decade of the learning landscape. New technologies, new ecologies, and new practices are disrupting how we learn, what we learn, and where we learn. The definitions of teacher and student are fluid. Education is moving out of episodic experiences at traditional institutions like classrooms and schools into learning flows that course through our daily lives. Opportunities and resources for learners are no longer scarce but abundant, pervasive rather than localized.
- For more information about the Future of Learning, please contact Sara Skvirsky ([email protected]).
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