Teaching in the Time of Testing: What Have You Lost?

In preparing for this essay, the McCrackens asked teachers, “What have you lost from your teaching or your classroom since the growth of mandated standardized testing?” Respondents noted not only loss of instructional time but, more significantly, loss of themselves as teachers and declining desire to teach. The authors express further concern for teacher preparation in the age of high-stakes teacher testing and present a critical view of the Praxis II.