New York is on the brink of adopting a "workplace readiness" exam that would test skills like writing and teamwork. Next week the New York Board of Regents will consider how to integrate the exam into the high school curriculum.
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feedback: job readiness testing
standardized testing makes standardized children. The underlying premise of this test is to standardize potential workers so that the are more easily managed.
-TF
Thank heavens they didn't test me for job readiness 35 years ago -- I
would have flunked cold. I had a pretty bad attitude, ...
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