Obama wants to limit the time kids spend on standardized tests

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President Obama called for capping standardized testing at 2 percent of classroom time in a video released on the White House's Facebook page Saturday.

"Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble," he said. "So we're going to work with states, school districts, teachers, and parents to make sure that we're not obsessing about testing."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.