If insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results, then South Carolina is about to join much of the nation in education policy that can only be called insanity.
The current accountability era was spurred by A Nation at Risk, and despite that report being flawed and a political tool, most states, including SC, jumped on the standards/testing bandwagon. Since the early 1980s, SC has produced multiple versions of standards (from Frameworks to our current commitment to Common Core) and state tests (from BSAP to PACT to PASS and to the yet-to-be named increased testing associated with Common Core).
What has been the result here in SC and across the nation to fifty varied and revised
