The worst news from NAEP
Category: Assessment
Better Teacher Preparation in Math Can Break Down Barriers to STEM for Girls, Students of Color & Low-Income Kids
All the ways American teenagers are under enormous pressure to succeed
Help Kids Learn by Measuring Their Growth, Not Their Proficiency
9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up
A Proposal to End Standardized Testing
K-12 Education: Challenges to Assessing Program Performance and Recent Efforts to Address Them
Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students
Beyond the midterms: Helping students overcome the impact of No Child Left Behind
What’s Wrong with Standardized Tests Infographic
Here's an easy to share infographic from FairTest, highlighting what's wrong with standardized testing. Share it as you please, just don's alter it or remove FairTest's credit.
Teacher Evaluation Should Not Rest on Student Test Scores
According to FairTest, there are drawback to linking teacher evaluations to student test score. For example, testing too often measures the life circumstances of the students in the class and not how well the teacher teaches. Check out the PDF for more on this topic:
State-Mandated Testing: Why We Opt Out
