WSJ: New Front in Charter Schools

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5. Standardized tests are useless...

All they do is a measure of student success. All they do is make publishers like Pearson and guys like Jeb Bush rich at our expense.

True student achievement is measured through outcome assessment such as, "Do graduates get jobs?" and go on to post secondary education or are successful in the military, for example.

Feed back on these graduates and from their employers can be quantified and the results can be rolled back into the schools to improve there methodologies. At the bedside in an ICU I never had to take a standardized to see whether the patient lived or died.