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Last updated: February 24, 2012 5:57 p.m.

It's not only a test

Karen Francisco | The Journal Gazette

A reader laments the loss of school field trips in this thoughtful letter to the editor, placing the blame on the obsession with testing.

If you aren't an Indiana educator or parent of a child currently in school, you might not realize just how many tests our schools are administering.

ISTEP+, the granddaddy of Indiana's high-stakes tests, is coming up next month, but this chart from the Department of Ed illustrates how pervasive testing has become in our classrooms. Not every student is subject to every one of the tests, but it certainly offers a glance at what educators are juggling and, more important, the business opportunity it offers to the corporate interests fueling its expansion.

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Karen Francisco, editorial page editor for The Journal Gazette, has been an Indiana journalist since 1981. She writes frequently about education for The Journal Gazette opinion pages and here, where she looks at the business, politics and science of learning as it relates to northeast Indiana, the state and the nation. She can be reached at 260-461-8206 or by e-mail at kfrancisco@jg.net.
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