Standards, Testing, and Accountability
The Education Exchange: Testing Finds “Pervasive” Decline in Achievement, With Learning Losses Worse in Math
“Tutoring needs to be part of the toolkit,” says member of board that oversees Nation’s Report Card
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
The Education Exchange: Students Learn Less When They Are Not At School In Person Full-Time, New Study Shows
Losses are biggest in math, according to test scores in 12 states
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
The Education Exchange: Common Core Adoption Hurt Student Performance in Science, Social Studies, a New Study Finds
Standards for math and reading had negative spillover effects on other subjects
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
EdNext Podcast: An Optimist’s Guide to American Public Education
"Every school has some teacher who really gets kids excited," says Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
EdNext Podcast: On State Standardized Testing, Flexibility Is Key
Avoid: "welcome back to school and get ready for the test tomorrow."
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
The Education Exchange: The Future of Results-Based Accountability in Education
"If we hadn't had the accountability regime and the choices that have come along with it, I believe we would have had even less improvement," says Chester E. Finn Jr.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
EdNext Podcast: Projections of Pandemic Learning Loss Were Too Pessimistic, a New Study Suggests
The largest and most comprehensive analysis to date of actual, rather than projected, pandemic learning loss finds math suffered more than reading.
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
EdNext Podcast: Pandemic Sets off a Scramble for Scarce SAT and ACT Seats
"It's a little absurd to see hundreds of families from different states across the Eastern Seaboard descending on small rural Virginia towns to sit for college admissions tests."
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
The Education Exchange: The Pandemic Is Killing Standardized Testing and the Accountability that Comes With It
"Favoritism, rich parents getting new kinds of advantages for their kids, the lacrosse coach and the speech coach and the trip to Bhutan will end up counting for more rather than less, because there won't be an SAT score," Chester Finn, Jr. warns.
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EdNext Podcast: Momentum Builds for an Untimed SAT
Greg Toppo, an education journalist and author of The Game Believes in You, joins EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the continuing calls for making the SAT untimed for everyone.
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