Testing found to have no effect on learning.

The very last line from this article in Edweek.com. is a quote that sums up this article perfectly for me- (Mr. Baron said. “That was basically accepted without evidence or support in NCLB and other government and private sector efforts to increase performance.”) All the money, time and effort put it to judging performance just makes me sad. Knowing that so much more could have been done to improve education. We all know that it is not a perfect system and all that money could have gone into things that had been proven to work. This may sound crazy but maybe school performance should be based on end results... Do the students get jobs? Are they good at them? Are they productive? Are the Successful? Maybe when a person gets to the end of their life they should look back and reflect on the relevance of their education.