Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Assessment Data Can Help Us Build Back Better
Forum: Statewide Assessments in 2021
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Focus on Instruction and Intervention, Not Testing, in 2021
Forum: Statewide Assessments in 2021
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Secretary DeVos, It’s Time to Scratch the 2020 State Tests
It’s time to waive the assessment requirements, everywhere and for everyone.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Strengthening Standards, Teaching and Tests in a Deep Red State
An interview with John White, Louisiana's state superintendent of schools
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Why School Ratings Should Stress Learning Gains
A recent national study found that many schools with low achievement were at the same time producing average or better growth. Conversely, student growth in schools with few disadvantaged students varied widely,
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
How to Reverse Grade Inflation and Help Students Reach Their Potential
A new study looks at how easy or hard it is today to get a good grade in high school and whether that has changed over time.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Past Is Prologue on Common Core Tests
The improvements in the nation’s tests in recent years are real. Education leaders need to hold firm on these advances in the rigor and technical quality of their tests, even as they take on the next steps of aligning high-quality curriculum and instruction
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
How the Common Core Changed Standardized Testing
In many states, assessments have advanced considerably over the previous generation of assessments.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
What Can NAEP Tell Us About How Much U.S. Children Are Learning?
This report presents new analyses of state-average NAEP data that attempt to address the limitation of changing samples of students by following cohorts of students from 4th grade in a given year to 8th grade four years later.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Is the High School Graduation Rate Really Going Up?
We would like graduates to meet standards for graduation and not simply leave the system with a piece of paper and deficient skills.
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