Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Declining NAEP Scores Are Flashing Red Lights for the Covid Generation
My claim that the Great Recession was to blame for lower test scores was met with mockery. Here's the case.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Making Sure School Performance Measures Provide the Right Diagnosis to Improve Student Outcomes
"How are the students doing?" is a different question from "What does the school contribute?"
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Blinding Ourselves to America’s Achievement Woes
Even AP students now seek out "easy" subjects, such as "human geography."
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Local Control Is Part of the Problem, a New Book About Education Contends
Louisiana, Rhode Island point path toward quality, Polikoff says
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Testing, SpaceX, and the Quest for Consensus
A hoped-for revolution in assessment confronts practical obstacles
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Yes, Learning Standards Are Arbitrary. Yes, Learning Loss Is Real.
Children need to know how to read, and fewer of them are currently reading as well as they otherwise would be. That demands our attention, not our platitudes.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Tennessee Meets Pandemic with Summer Learning Camps, Phonics, Testing
Covid education package emerges from special legislative session
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Five Intuitions to Guide Assessment in 2021 and After
Parental choice is a form of accountability, too.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Covid and Student Achievement: Early Evidence from Ohio’s Fall Tests
The decline equates to about one third of a year’s worth of learning, and it was worse among students whose districts started the year with fully remote instruction.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Pandemic Offers Opportunity to Reduce Standardized Testing
Start by ending the practice of giving annual tests to all kids in most grades
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Threats to quality and innovation outweigh benefit of increased access.
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