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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As states adopted standards-based reforms and enacted accountability systems that focused on student outcomes, state officials—particularly governors—pressed the federal government to move away from ...

Not long ago, political conservatives were strong advocates for test-based accountability. No Child Left Behind, the largest test-based accountability policy in U.S. history, was ushered in under ...

In the 1990s, Illinois, along with most other states, began moving to an outcomes-based education model in which teachers, schools, and districts were graded based on how well their students were ...

No Child Left Behind, the largest test-based accountability policy in U.S. history, was ushered in under George W. Bush in the early 2000s. But today, ...

The designations are based on test scores and other data for the student body overall and for student subgroups based on race, ethnicity, gender, disabilities, poverty status and other factors.