Sixteen hours in a single week!
No, 11 hours for the entire year!
Both numbers were cited to score points and bolster arguments last week when state legislators began reevaluating Colorado’s system of mandatory assessments for students starting in kindergarten and ending in high school.
The occasion: the Joint Education Committee getting its hands on a much-anticipated report from an advisory task force that urged reducing the testing burden without forsaking holding schools and districts accountable for student achievement.
Why the yawning gap in the estimated time given over to testing? Are either numbers right? What exactly is being measured?