Introduction to TSS Special Section: Social Studies Standardized Testing—Helpful or Harmful?
he hot issue in the minds of today’s T social studies teachers is standardized testing. Although most national and state professional social studies organizations have strongly supported the standards and standardized testing movemcnt, many rank and file social studies teachers have opposed the movenicnt with words and actions. Across the country, teachers opposed to standarcli/,ed testing voice the same objections :