Test-based accountability will work better if we acknowledge how little we know about it, if the federal government devotes appropriate resources to studying it, ...

There are three major and documented ways in which current accountability practices harm students, write Jennifer Jennings and David Cantor. Test-Based Accountability Is a Political Test (Opinion) ...

Test-based accountability has contributed to math gains among younger students, but these improvements ended a decade ago, were achieved in part by taking time away from other subjects, ...

Test-focused policies, whether we start with 2002’s NCLB or 1994’s “Goals 2000” and “Improving America’s Schools Act” (when the federal push for test – based accountability began ...

“Race to the Top” is not equal educational opportunity. It is a race in which states race to the top to have more privatized schools, more test-based accountability, more basic skills ...

Since No Child Left Behind first rumbled onto the scene, the use of a Big Standardized Test to drive accountability and measure success has been a fundamental piece of education reform. But ...

BOULDER, CO (October 25, 2015) – Yesterday, the Obama Administration acknowledged its own role in escalating the nation’s over-reliance on high-stakes, test-based accountability policies. It issued a ...

The bipartisan testing and accountability system erected in most states in the 1990s and then ensconced in federal policy as No Child Left Behind in 2001. Based on narrow measures of grade ...

California is officially done with telling parents that schools are only as good as their test scores. ... the state’s test-based accountability system that gave each school a one-number rating.

Test-based accountability presumes that tests can account for ability. We all know about what is sometimes called “ Campbell’s Law ,” and we’ve all heard the warnings and complaints about ...

But, not only has this aspiration not happened, the “gap” between the lowest and highest achievers has also widened. Test-based accountability would close the gaps, we were told, but even in Finland, ...