Standardized Tests
Accountability Without Testing = Trouble
An unhappy episode in Montgomery County, Maryland, (where I live) reminds us that the quest…
What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Get About School Reform
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently disparaged two decades of public school reform, in particular…
The New Testing Landscape: State Assessments Under ESSA
State testing systems are in transition. Buffeted by anti-testing sentiment on the left…
Past Is Prologue on Common Core Tests
The PARCC and Smarter Balanced state testing consortia set in motion significant improvements in state…
How the Common Core Changed Standardized Testing
When the U.S. Department of Education awarded $350 million to two consortia of states in…
A New Voice for American Education
We are pleased to announce the launch of FutureEd, an independent, solution-oriented think tank…
In Defense of the Common Core and Its Tests
As everyone in the education community knows only too well, the Common Core State Standards…
What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score Outcomes
Professor C. Kirabo Jackson finds that using both test-scores and non-test-score measures of…