In BIDEN ADMINISTRATION MAKES ITS FIRST DUMB MOVE AND REQUIRES STANDARDIZED TESTS THIS YEAR, I shared a number of articles highlighting both lack of wisdom involved in ever placing much weight into them, as well as specific critiques against doing them this year.

Since the decision, many people much smarter than me have come out with even more clear-headed analysis about why the Biden Administration decision was a big mistake. We can only hope that, unlike Trump, President Biden is willing to admit when makes an error and fix it (though I’m not holding my breath).

Here are some commentaries worth reading:

This year’s state test results will be tough to make sense of, experts warn is from Chalkbeat.

OPINION: Resuming universal standardized testing in America’s public schools would be ‘foolhardy’ appeared in The Hechinger Report.