"Why School?" How About... "Why Assess?"

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"Remaking assessment starts with this: Stop asking questions on tests that can be answered by a Google search. Or, if you have to ask them, let kids use their technology to answer them." (page 34)

Will Richardson states this in his 2012 book 'Why School' and my online course group came to this conclusion a few times in the last few weeks even without his writing as a prompt. So now what? What kind of testing is 'good testing'? Is there such a thing? At what age should students be 'allowed' to google their answers? If we remake assessment what effect does that have on our rankings worldwide? Should we care? What do we really need our students to be able to do? Do we need to assess children at all???? What came first...school or testing? These chicken and eggs need to be set free! Here's what Alfie Kohn thinks, and here's some more, what do you think?