Last year was the first in nearly two decades that the US did not give standardized tests to virtually every student in public school.
Think about that.
Since 2001 almost every child took the tests unless their parents explicitly demanded they be opted out.
For 19 years almost every child in grades 3-8 and once in high school took standardized assessments.
And then came 2019-20 and – nothing.
No multiple guess fill-in the bubble questions.
No sorting students into classes based on the results.
No evaluating teachers and schools based on the poverty, race and ethnicities of the children they serve.
And all it took to make us stop was a global pandemic.
What are the results of that discontinuity?
We may never really know.
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