Daniel Koretz: American Students Are Not Getting Smarter, and Test-Based “Reforms” Are to Blame
Daniel Koretz is one of the leading authorities on testing in the United States. A professor at Harvard University, he has written two important books about testing–its uses and misuses.
The first was Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us.
His latest is The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better.
He wrote:
In December, we received more bad news about the achievement of American students: Our 15-year-olds made no significant progress in math and reading on PISA, the largest of the international tests. This followed on the heels of a new report from our National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed no real progress in reading or math for fourth or eighth grade students for the past decade, and longer for reading.
The routine debate is underway about how bad this news is, but such arguments mostly miss a core lesson: CONTINUE READING: Daniel Koretz: American Students Are Not Getting Smarter, and Test-Based “Reforms” Are to Blame | Diane Ravitch's blog
