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The unions have also fought the use of test scores in tenure decisions, saying they were an unfair gauge of ability and would turn classrooms into test-preparation mills.

Field test results have no consequences for students or teachers, but that has not placated parents and testing skeptics, who say they turn classrooms into focus groups and add more stress to a process that is already filled with anxiety.

But the risk it brings of cheating, the lack of reliability of scoring and the tendency to turn classrooms into pure test preparation centers all are reasons for concern about the overreliance on standardized tests as a measure of student achievement or teachers' and administrators' effectiveness.

The rise of citizen science in education is turning classrooms into labs and pupils into pioneers, with projects investigating humanity's impact on the planet among the most accessible for schools.

And William Thompson Jr., a former city comptroller, answered Mr. Walcott in a statement on Saturday by noting the incompleteness of educational gains: "For 12 years, the mayor has vilified teachers, shut out parents, turned classrooms into test prep centers and closed community schools.

While some educators would like to use technology to "teacher-proof" the educational process, turning classrooms into ever more efficient assembly lines, there are many more using it to tell, create and share stories using words, pictures, video and music.

"It's a national security issue," he said the other day outside a garage-turned-classroom filled with boxes of Dr. Earth Kelp Meal.

"Acts of Light," Graham's meditation on love, death and rebirth, was especially impressive in its conclusion, which turns classroom steps into affirmations of life.

For example, the One Mile Project teaches students about issues facing older adults and then turns classroom learning into community services projects with elders.

Upstairs, what had been bedrooms have been turned into classrooms and meeting rooms.

The transformation is all done with Shiseido cosmetics, which are used to turn a classroom of schoolboys into schoolgirls.