Published Articles & Media
News
The Accountability Plateau
In Texas and across the nation, high-stakes testing regimes produced real gains for a few years, then flat-lined
News
The International PISA Test
States should think twice before paying for more testing. There are easier ways to compare students to their global peers.
Blog
Challenging PISA Again
Andreas Schleicher recently blogged in response to my EdNext article, “The International PISA Test,” but his response fails to deal with important issues I raised in my article: the quality of PISA’s analysis and the degree to which PISA’s reports ignore the limits of the data in support of conclusions that seem to have been determined in advance of the analysis. Another issue I raised is how PISA should fit into the U.S. system of testing and data collection.