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Liza Bondurant, Associate Professor of Secondary Math Education, Mississippi State University

Students take up to 88 standardized tests before high school, but more testing doesn’t improve learning

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The costs of standardized testing extend well beyond the fees schools pay testing companies. Radila Radilova/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Graphic saying ‘The median number of standardized tests students take from kindergarten through grade 8 — The Conversation. CC BY-NC-SA

The public K-12 school system in the United States has become pervasively shaped by standardized testing.

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