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Many educators, parents, and administrators have come to see testing as a necessary evil. The complaints against standardized testing are vehement and come from all sides. Students hate tests because they’re boring and exhausting. Parents worry about the unneeded stress that tests put on their children. And teachers loathe the loss of instructional time and the pressure to make sure...

Our economy, job market, and society have changed a good deal in the past hundred years. Our schools, on the other hand, have remained essentially static. Classroom organization, teacher-student relationships, school days and yearly schedules are all pretty much the same as they were a century ago. And yet, much of the research around how children learn best proves that...