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Origin of Everything
Do Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
Season 1
Episode 31
Do standardized test help or harm students? And is the US actually over testing students when compared with other nations? In this episode of Origin of Everything, we ask the big question about why do some American students take an average 112 standardized tests between Kindergarten & Grade 12?
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