Do Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Do standardized test help or harm students? And is the US actually over testing students when compared with other nations? In this episode of Origin of Everything, we ask the big question about why do some American students take an average 112 standardized tests between Kindergarten & Grade 12? Like our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/originofeverythingpbs Instagram: @pbsoriginofeverything Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Edited By: Linda Huang and Mike Petrow Fact Check: Sarah Edwards Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Works Cited http://www.nea.org/home/66139.htm https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/ https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/january/finnish-schools-reform-012012.html https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/12/how-do-american-students-compare-to-their-international-peers/509834/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/exams-around-the-world/395540/ http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2015/11/are-american-students-overtested-listen.html http://hechingerreport.org/24830-2/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/11/south-korean-seniors-have-been-preparing-for-today-since-kindergarten/508031/ http://abcnews.go.com/International/che

Published 2018-05-15 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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