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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF HIGH-STAKES TESTING

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2011

Review of research demonstrating how high stakes testing leads to decreased performance and increased stressed, especially for students of color.

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Traci Nicole Smith A black and white photo of a white woman with blond hair.

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Traci resides in New Orleans and have a PhD in Special Education. In 2019, she formed The Educational Epistolary, a consultancy focused on navigating education through a spiritual lens.

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It's about mattering, feeling like you matter and also that what you're doing matters. I think it's important for me that I feel like I can bring my full self to something, heart and head, and that all of the various parts of me are alive and challenged and supported and so all of that kind of comes back to love, feeling loved, loving seems at the center of a good life to me.

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