Education Comparisons

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(03-10-2016, 10:00 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't buy this argument.

I agree that some teachers are too obsessed with the testing (I have to kids in public school).  But standards are absolutely necessary, and they do nothing to hold back the best students. 

It's my fault for not making it clear, but that sentence was toward the concept of standardized tests. Standards in themselves are necessary.