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To me, this alone makes the argument that those tests are likely a good idea.


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who's arguing they're not a good idea?

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I would assume the people protesting them in the linked story? Perhaps?

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nah, they just want to walk in their graduation ceremony w/ failing TAKS scores.

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But it's not just a walk/not walk issue. It's that they're not being allowed to graduate because they couldn't pass some standarized "did you actually [censored] learn anything" test. So if they're just saying "let my kid walk", they're basically protesting the test.

I realize the danger in these tests is that you don't want people teaching students just to past the tests, but I'd feel like you can design something that allows some way to determine quality of education across different levels.