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Students take up to 88 standardized tests before high school, but more testing doesn't improve learning
The public K-12 school system in the United States has become pervasively shaped by standardized testing. I began teaching mathematics in 2005, four years after the federal law No Child Left Behind was enacted.
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The United States public K‑12 system is now pervasively shaped by standardized testing. The author began teaching mathematics in 2005, four years after the No Child Left Behind law was enacted. That federal law expanded state testing and linked test results to school performance.
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