Australia cautioned to avoid US system of national testing

An international education authority has warned Australia against introducing national testing in schools because it has lowered literacy and numeracy standards in the United States. Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor of education at Stanford University in California, addressed English teachers and researchers in Canberra on July 10. She said the US external accountability and assessment system, introduced in 2001, had diluted the school curriculum. Read the article at The Sydney Morning Herald website.