Why would parents trust grades more than standardized test scores? Wrong question. Why should they trust test scores? We assume the stupidity of parents and that score reports give us useful information. Akil Bello unpacks unfortunate media framing and more. #TestScores
https://ow.ly/YA0H50YqxSL

How College Board Quietly Became the "Cartel of Education" | The Deep YouTube video by The LOOPcast

i don’t know how to say it so that more people understand and care: the right wing is really going after the college board and if everyone else pretends the organization is great, we’re in big trouble m.youtube.com/watch?v=ASY8...

Test Scores Tell You Who Your Child Beat, Not What Your Child Knows - Fairtest Akil Bello takes issue with the assumptions, framing and research underlying the Hechinger Report article blaming parents for trusting report cards more than standardized test scores, "with consequences for kids". Why would parents trust test scores? And while there is an underlying assumption made that grades lie, there is no interrogation of the test score

Why would parents trust grades more than test scores? Wrong question. Why would parents trust test scores? Let's interrogate whether test score reports give us meaningful information about kids rather than assume parents are ignorant. Read Akil Bello's take. #TestScores
https://ow.ly/x3tP50YqxuA

Both superseded the accomplishments of the original

Can you say Trump Stagflation?

Overselling the Mississippi Miracle Southern poverty is a policy choice

Let's not confuse Mississippi "miracle" with actual anti-poverty agenda. 4th grade test score rise not panacea. Early reading and math interventions are not a substitute for real investments in broad economic success. Economic opportunity and social mobility not that cheap.
https://ow.ly/R4yz50YmyQN

Report: Remedial Enrollments Surged at UCSD Amid Shifting Placement Testing Conditions | Just Equations

From Just Equations, more context of UCSD math report ignored by media and testing hawkers. Remedial math enrollment spiked when UCSD went to no calculators on its placement exam, not when it opened its gates to more poor kids by going test free.
https://ow.ly/hj3250YmzwT

New paper shows harm of third-grade retention policies. Texas policy significantly reduced earnings by age 26, increased absenteeism, violent behavior, and juvenile crime and reduces HS graduation rate. Oh, test scores temporarily improved. Whoopee! #ThirdGradeRetention
https://ow.ly/KHHJ50Ymy4O

Report: Remedial Enrollments Surged at UCSD Amid Shifting Placement Testing Conditions | Just Equations

From Just Equations, more context of UCSD math report ignored by media and testing hawkers. Remedial math enrollment spiked when UCSD went to no calculators on its placement exam, not when it opened its gates to more poor kids by going test free.
https://ow.ly/hj3250YmzwT

Overselling the Mississippi Miracle Southern poverty is a policy choice

Let's not confuse Mississippi "miracle" with actual anti-poverty agenda. 4th grade test score rise not panacea. Early reading and math interventions are not a substitute for real investments in broad economic success. Economic opportunity and social mobility not that cheap.
https://ow.ly/R4yz50YmyQN

New paper shows harm of third-grade retention policies. Texas policy significantly reduced earnings by age 26, increased absenteeism, violent behavior, and juvenile crime and reduces HS graduation rate. Oh, test scores temporarily improved. Whoopee! #ThirdGradeRetention
https://ow.ly/KHHJ50Ymy4O

A must read. We try to give students of lesser means access to the process advantages of affluence. But the key metrics for college admission, both tests and other components, wildly advantage the affluent. Need deeper policy shifts to level the field.
https://ow.ly/grH550Y50tM
#CollegeAdmissions

Missouri IADA: Monitoring Implementation, Ensuring Educational Benefits - Fairtest Missouri was granted flexibility to develop an innovative assessment system under the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) program by the Trump Administration. The proposal pilots new assessments in Math and ELA in 4th and 5th grade with the goal of scaling systemwide to more useful assessments that are able to capture student competencies and allow

Missouri joins the IADA program to pilot a new assessment system. Will it improve on the current model? What should stakeholders ask during design and implementation? Read the FairTest report.

https://ow.ly/x09S50Y4Zx2

#Education #Assessment #EdPolicy #IADA #FairTest

The Bigger Picture Beyond the UCSD Math Report (opinion) Declining math skills are a real problem nationally, but UC San Diego is an unusual case—and other California colleges offer a range of promising models for rethinking calculus requirements.

UCSD report being misused through the prism of admissions testing. Penalizes students with a testing gate for lacking preparation the system inequitably provides.Really about how and what math is taught and required. UCSD only CA uni doing it light this. And other insights.
https://ow.ly/UZ4n50Y5EnC

A must read. We try to give students of lesser means access to the process advantages of affluence. But the key metrics for college admission, both tests and other components, wildly advantage the affluent. Need deeper policy shifts to level the field.
https://ow.ly/grH550Y50tM
#CollegeAdmissions

Missouri IADA: Monitoring Implementation, Ensuring Educational Benefits - Fairtest Missouri was granted flexibility to develop an innovative assessment system under the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) program by the Trump Administration. The proposal pilots new assessments in Math and ELA in 4th and 5th grade with the goal of scaling systemwide to more useful assessments that are able to capture student competencies and allow

Missouri joins the IADA program to pilot a new assessment system. Will it improve on the current model? What should stakeholders ask during design and implementation? Read the FairTest report.

https://ow.ly/x09S50Y4Zx2

#Education #Assessment #EdPolicy #IADA #FairTest

The SAT has surged in popularity. The ACT is making changes. While elite colleges and students reconsidered the value of the tests and the SAT gained consumers, the ACT made changes over the past two years to claw back market share.

ACT making changes to combat market share loss to SAT. Race to the bottom for entities worried about profit and marketing, not education. FairTest comments on the problems in the testing market. Keep antitrust law alive! #ACTvsSAT #StandardizedTesting #FairTest
https://ow.ly/KXXr50Y0LQ1

The SAT has surged in popularity. The ACT is making changes. While elite colleges and students reconsidered the value of the tests and the SAT gained consumers, the ACT made changes over the past two years to claw back market share.

ACT making changes to combat market share loss to SAT. Race to the bottom for entities worried about profit and marketing, not education. FairTest comments on the problems in the testing market. Keep antitrust law alive! #ACTvsSAT #StandardizedTesting #FairTest
https://ow.ly/KXXr50Y0LQ1

Conservatives See Two-parent Households as a Solution to Student Achievement. It’s Not That Simple | KQED A family’s bank account matters more than a wedding ring, as NAEP data suggests that family structure affects student performance mostly in wealthier households.

Student achievement as measured by NAEP scores correlates with family income. Family structure doesn't matter (except for rich kids). Excellent breakdown by Jill Barshay. It's the economy, stupid. Or a poverty problem. #NAEPScores #EducationEquity
https://ow.ly/6Qbf50XXGlC

The Schools Are Failing (Again) What’s behind the latest round of public education panic?

Yes it's true. We suck. So more beatings please. Pointed and searing analysis of where this going by Jennifer Berkshire. Alliance of affluent moderates and anti-DEI voters over college admissions and nostalgic NCLB waxing not good. #NCLB #CollegeAdmissions #DEI
https://ow.ly/J6iK50XXmu1

Conservatives See Two-parent Households as a Solution to Student Achievement. It’s Not That Simple | KQED A family’s bank account matters more than a wedding ring, as NAEP data suggests that family structure affects student performance mostly in wealthier households.

Student achievement as measured by NAEP scores correlates with family income. Family structure doesn't matter (except for rich kids). Excellent breakdown by Jill Barshay. It's the economy, stupid. Or a poverty problem. #NAEPScores #EducationEquity
https://ow.ly/6Qbf50XXGlC

The Schools Are Failing (Again) What’s behind the latest round of public education panic?

Yes it's true. We suck. So more beatings please. Pointed and searing analysis of where this going by Jennifer Berkshire. Alliance of affluent moderates and anti-DEI voters over college admissions and nostalgic NCLB waxing not good. #NCLB #CollegeAdmissions #DEI
https://ow.ly/g2EZ50XXmtW

Wow. The stupidity of this is beyond the pale.

How to Make College Admissions Fairer: Research Brief Black students and other students of color face barriers to college enrollment like unfair admissions policies. When colleges and universities treat students as whole people, rather than just test scores, they can ensure that talented young people have equal access to opportunity.

Excellent research by OiYan Poon for the NAACP LDF. Emphasizing standardized test scores in college admissions leaves talent on the table. Tests underpredict the potential of many students of color and artificially depress the scores of some examinees. #CollegeAdmissions
https://ow.ly/LjWv50XMzVJ

Rethinking What We Choose to Measure in Schools - EdSurge News In the push for accountability, this educator grapples with information overload and diminishing classroom time.

How much data is too much? Are we measuring the right things? Testing data is only as useful as teachers' capacity to use it. An educator's perspective on the impact of data on curriculum, time allocation and student learning. Excellent piece. #DataInEducation
https://ow.ly/Xh0T50XMzv0

How to Make College Admissions Fairer: Research Brief Black students and other students of color face barriers to college enrollment like unfair admissions policies. When colleges and universities treat students as whole people, rather than just test scores, they can ensure that talented young people have equal access to opportunity.

Excellent research by OiYan Poon for the NAACP LDF. Emphasizing standardized test scores in college admissions leaves talent on the table. Tests underpredict the potential of many students of color and artificially depress the scores of some examinees. #CollegeAdmissions
https://ow.ly/LFgG50XMzVK

Rethinking What We Choose to Measure in Schools - EdSurge News In the push for accountability, this educator grapples with information overload and diminishing classroom time.

How much data is too much? Are we measuring the right things? Testing data is only as useful as teachers' capacity to use it. An educator's perspective on the impact of data on curriculum, time allocation and student learning. Excellent piece. #DataInEducation
https://ow.ly/Xh0T50XMzv0

More High Schools Look Beyond Exit Exams As high schools rethink graduation requirements, a growing number are moving away from requiring all students to pass a comprehensive test.

A look at why states have been abandoning exit exams and rethinking graduation requirements to meet a complex world. The discussion of what should replace MCAS in MA figures prominently. Fairtest weighs in. #GraduationRequirements #MCAS #ExitExams #FairTest
https://ow.ly/LxOV50XLwqa

More High Schools Look Beyond Exit Exams As high schools rethink graduation requirements, a growing number are moving away from requiring all students to pass a comprehensive test.

A look at why states have been abandoning exit exams and rethinking graduation requirements to meet a complex world. The discussion of what should replace MCAS in MA figures prominently. Fairtest weighs in. #GraduationRequirements #MCAS #ExitExams #FairTest
https://ow.ly/LxOV50XLwqa

Because of CB’s primacy in the high school and admissions spaces they should be the target. But replacing the SAT with the CLT just gives the right a chit in the culture war. Would be nice if the liberal left actually supported inquiry not test based public education.