standardized tests

The Illinois State Board of Education is weighing whether to replace the state’s annual Illinois Assessment of Readiness standardized test for grades 3 through 8 with three separate tests spread out in a school year. But teacher unions and education advocacy groups claim the proposed change would amount to more class time being dedicated to test preparation.

High school students through the decades have sweated over the college admissions tests, the ACT and the SAT. Now, more and more schools are not requiring…