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Mon 11 Nov 2009School tests abusive, says academic
A NORTH American educationalist has said that school tests are “abusive” and children will learn just as well without them.
Speaking at NUI Galway (NUIG) Prof Eugene Galanter said that children should be “educated, not scored”. Tests, he said, “terrify children and parents, resulting in sleepless nights, and their only result is to permit one parent to tell another how much better her child is doing,” Prof Galanter said.
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