Standardized Testing Opponents are on the Wrong Side of Civil Rights

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Here’s my new Newsworks column:

On Monday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined his wish-list for the next iteration of No Child Left Behind. It will be the seventh generation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which began in 1965.  

Duncan again emphasized the administration’s support for mandatory standardized testing of children in grades three through eight.  

The anti-testing cadre gave a collective hiss on the internet. Nothing new there: opposition to annual standardized student assessments is the new craze. But, remarkably, sloganeers of “toxic testing,” including teacher union leaders and suburban parents, find themselves at odds with some of America’s most prominent civil rights groups. 

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