For an alternate viewpoint, see Counterpoint: Standardized Tests Help Students by Creating a Framework for Accountability. For more than a century, American education has been driven by the same invisible engine: standardization. Rows of desks. National tests. Rankings. From No Child Left Behind to statewide report cards, we have long measured success by what can […]
Author Archives: Olli-Pekka Heinonen
Olli-Pekka Heinonen is the director general of the Switzerland-based International Baccalaureate, an education framework implemented in 1,900 U.S. schools. His book, “Learning As If Life Depended on It,” was published in November. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.