| "On behalf of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Kevin Welner and William Mathis have written an excellent overview of the failure of standardized testing as the driver of educational reform. Here is the summary: "In this Policy Memo, Kevin Welner and William Mathis discuss the broad research consensus that standardized:" "Current debates over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), of which NCLB is the most recent iteration, now center around specific assessment issues such as how many tests should be given and which grades should be tested, as well as the respective roles of state and federal governments.6 Largely lost in these debates is whether test-based accountability policies will produce equitable educational opportunities through substantially improved schooling." This explains explains why they will not... |
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