Failure Secondary Education Testing 
eSchool News
JUNE 10, 2025
Today, Finland routinely ranks near the top of international assessments, but the United States lags behind and is also burdened by inequity, over-testing, and fractured policy. In the decades following World War II, the United States made sweeping investments in public education. This engendered the “standards and testing” era.
eSchool News
APRIL 2, 2025
Unfortunately, this kind of productive struggle is largely absent from K-12 education, leaving students ill-prepared with the mental resilience required to learn and adapt in college and beyond. The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure.
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eSchool News
JUNE 18, 2024
These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Yet to hear the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education tell it, there’s still a lot of work to be done. So what was initially seen as a failure was actually longterm, pretty successful. He was never going to be advanced or even proficient on an academics test.
Edsurge
APRIL 24, 2023
Name : Sarah Cardoza Age: 29 Location : Eagle River, Alaska College : University of Alaska Fairbanks Area of study : History and secondary education Hometown : Homer, Alaska EdSurge: What is your earliest memory of a teacher? I felt kind of like a failure. You're testing a lot of limits. My teacher was amazing.
eSchool News
JUNE 5, 2024
Key points: About two-thirds of American students fail to meet reading standards every year when tested in 4 th , 8 th , and 12 th grades. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.
Edsurge
MAY 10, 2021
The reality is that not all college graduates are reaping the employment returns post-secondary education is believed to promise. If you’re a college student relying on features of higher education—such as college curriculum and career services—to make a transition to the workforce, you could be set up for failure.
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