As a high school teacher, I firmly believe that the person/org that can bridge the gulf between standardized testing [high trust/high cost/rare] and classroom assessment [low trust/sunk cost/extremely extensive] will command an extremely important and lucrative position.
The work of assessment is already being done millions of times each day by classroom instructors. We simply can’t trust the results.
If Forbes main audience is wealthy and well-educated, but their scions regress to the mean, they have a problem if they expect all their kids to be accepted to a high-status college. Prep schools can do a lot (working with very little) for a lot of money, so money can fix that end.
But standardized tests get in the way of “getting the skids greased”, as it were. Pricey test prep courses only go so far. The kid needs a few functioning neurons to score decently. The title implies a simple solution is at hand...why take them at all?
An article with this title could play well to that Forbes audience. The general public...not so much.
The work of assessment is already being done millions of times each day by classroom instructors. We simply can’t trust the results.