{"id":3522,"date":"2012-05-16T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:04","slug":"dana-goldstein-why-is-the-obama-administration-pushing-testing-on-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"Dana Goldstein: Why Is the Obama Administration Pushing Testing on Schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/\">The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5syyN5m4qI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration is now tying states&#8217; access to federal education funds to the ways they hold teachers accountable for students&#8217; success. That all sounds good in theory, but The Nation&#8217;s Dana Goldstein explains how this is causing most states to push test-heavy approaches to evaluating student achievement, and how such models can hurt student&#8217;s engagement more than they can help. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/167832\/join-our-live-chat-testing-and-education-reform?_r=hpyr\">Live Chat on Testing and Education Reform<br \/>\nDate: Thursday May 17, 2012<br \/>\nTime: 5:00PM EDT <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Nation The Obama administration is now tying states&#8217; access to federal education funds to the ways they hold teachers accountable for students&#8217; success. That all sounds good in theory, but The Nation&#8217;s Dana Goldstein explains how this is causing most states to push test-heavy approaches to evaluating student achievement, and how such models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[1009,487,1565,118,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}