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Ed Trust just likes tests

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The Education Trust. I’ve seen their schtick before – the 72 power point slides that they run through in 10 minutes, making it seem as though their ideas are heavy on data and research, when they are really all baloney.
Today I saw it again at an otherwise wonderful conference about racial healing in New Orleans put together by the Kellogg Foundation for their grantees; PURE is grateful to be one. They fund our work against high-stakes testing.
The conference’s only panel on education included Lisa Delpit, a terrific scholar on bias in education, who hassaid,

“If teachers make judgments only according to the tests being inflicted on the children by the schools, then they can misunderstand their children’s brilliance.”

We also heard from Edward Fergus Arcia who writes on disproportionality in education opportunity for African-