We do not know how students are progressing from year to year. We only look at the one isolated year and how it relates to all the other students. The point is, we have not evaluated the reasons we test, the cost of testing other than financial, and the value of the results of the testing in a very long time. We need to do that before we test one more child. You've raised some good points in this article.
Some students just freeze when it comes time to take a test.
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