Fact of the Day: How Much Time Does Standardized Testing Actually Take?

There is a direct relationship, I have noticed, between the complexity of a topic and the potential for nonsense to surround it.
That is exactly what is happening with the too-much-state- testing student walkout business.
The cold, hard facts are that state-required standardized testing in first through 12th grades takes 1.4 percent of a kid's annual school time at most.

Alice Caldwell at the Denver Post (hat tip: RealClearEducation)