Obama Advocates Even Less Accountability For Teachers

There's too much standardized testing going on out there.

President Barack Obama said Monday that students should take fewer standardized tests and school performance should be measured in other ways. Too much testing makes education boring for kids, he said.


"Too often what we have been doing is using these tests to punish students," the president told students and parents at a town hall hosted by the Univision Spanish-language television network at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C.

If education is boring for children, standardized testing indicates that they're not getting very bored.