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Standards and Stress

Explore the damaging effects of high-stakes tests on education, advocating for peer and principal evaluations as alternatives. Learn about the benefits and costs involved. Find out how you can contribute to reshaping the education system towards a more effective and equitable approach.

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Standards and Stress

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  1. Standards and Stress By Carlos Contreras

  2. Imagine!!! http://www.emotional-intelligence-education.com/stress-emotions.html

  3. The flaws of high stakes tests • Do not measure intelligence • Alter teaching styles • Rampant cheating

  4. The cost • 39.4 billion • Emotional toll

  5. What is the Solution • End testing • Peer evaluation • Principal evaluation • District evaluation http://educationalimpactblog.com/2011/01/20/teacher-evaluation-report-flawed/

  6. The Benifits • Teachers can teach all subjects • Free up money • Puts the power into local hands http://ulsu.wordpress.com/2008/11/

  7. How do we help • Write school district • Write congress • Write Senators • Write president • Spread the word

  8. http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/annual-test-dutch-school-children-startshttp://www.rnw.nl/english/article/annual-test-dutch-school-children-starts

  9. Works cited Education, The U.S. Department of. ED.gov. 11 March 2010. 9 April 2011. Richard P. Phelps, PhD. Correcting Fallacies About Educational and Psychological Testing.Austrailia: Footprint Books, 2008. Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics. New York: Harper Collins Books, 2005.

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