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I remember being tested EVERY year K-8 primarily for reading because our curriculum had several reading levels for each grade. Everybody had a book of 3 minute readings--with 5 question quiz, a 5-10 minute reading book with quiz, and a longer reading/workbook. However, there could be 5 or 6 different reading levels in the same classroom (I was at the leading edge of the baby-boom and we had 50 students in a classroom) so different level books.
I see nothing wrong with testing per se, and its nothing new. Way back
40 some odd years ago, I was thoroughly tested in my elementary school.
I well remember filling in bubble scan achievment tests. A difference
was that it didn't occur every year. I vaguely remember being tested
either 2 or 3 time in the first 8 grades with a major set of achievment
tests. Their were other smaller standardized testing done.