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With the NCLB Act schools have been required to increase their testing. In this post Gerstein states "I believe that tests provide an illusion that something has been learned, one that all stakeholders; teachers, administrators, parents, and students, themselves, have bought into."
She also states that she believes there "are qualitatve differences between assessment, measure, and tests." Gerstein brings in information from Cathy Davidson's post 'How Do We Measure What Really Counts in the Classroom" as well as information about the recent cheating scandal Harvard.
