Valerie Strauss has posted remarks from Susan Fuhrman, President of the National Academy of Education, on a new report urging extreme caution on the use of standardized tests to make pay and promotion decisions. It is a good summary of reasons to be skeptical about growth models for making such decisions, most of which have been summarily ignored by the corporate gang running national education policy.If you are interested in more details, you may download the new 97 page report as a pdf. These pages here (click to enlarge) offer a good summary of the recommendations.
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