Tag: NAEP

• Kress is Wrong on Tests: Our Accountability System Must Evolve

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  January 24, 2013

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  Sandy Kress wrote a Sept. 29 column for the Austin American-Statesman entitled “Kress: The Facts on School Accountability.” Sandy Kress is known as a key architect of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education reform passed in 2002 and is now a handsomely paid lobbyist for Pearson Education. Pearson is a testing company which gets…

  

• Lurking in the Bushes: Peeking at Florida Education Miracle

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  November 28, 2012

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  Dropout, High-Stakes Testing

  There is another education presidential candidate lurking in the Bushes with an education “miracle” being discussed extensively in the media and elsewhere. Critics have pointed out that the miracle in Florida is no more real than the education miracle in Texas that spawned No Child Left Behind a decade ago— another elegant illusion of numbers? Some…