Test-Based Accountability, International Comparisons, Standards-mania: Lessons Ignored
Marc Tucker confronts Diane Ravitch‘s recent stance against the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), not surprisingly in an EdWeek blog.
To understand why Tucker is wrong, and Ravitch is right, consider this reposting of a piece of mine challenging Tucker (Daily Censored, July 7, 2011):
The historical and current focus on test-based accountability to drive education evaluation and reform is often situated within another historical and current approach to judging U.S. public education—international comparisons. Just as we tend to misuse test data, specifically the SAT, to rank and label the quality of schools and state education systems, we do the same with international comparisons.
“A century ago, the United States was among the most eager benchmarkers in the world,” opens Tucker (2011),
To understand why Tucker is wrong, and Ravitch is right, consider this reposting of a piece of mine challenging Tucker (Daily Censored, July 7, 2011):
The historical and current focus on test-based accountability to drive education evaluation and reform is often situated within another historical and current approach to judging U.S. public education—international comparisons. Just as we tend to misuse test data, specifically the SAT, to rank and label the quality of schools and state education systems, we do the same with international comparisons.
“A century ago, the United States was among the most eager benchmarkers in the world,” opens Tucker (2011),
