School testing: Is there a middle ground between high stakes and low stakes testing?

It does seem very much to high school students here that only the high grades matter, not the difficulty of classes -- unless they are well-informed and have already decided to pursue a specific course of study in college and have reviewed program More..

A small part of the problem is that many Universities tell students that the difficulty of the class doesn't matter. A BYU rep told my daughter that the fact that she had only Honors and AP classes her last two years of high school would not More..

Too much funding for testing, and bringing up scores of low achievers.

Less focus on high achieving students, and they miss out.

Reflects our society.