Per Craig’s post below (see also this and this), part of the problem here is that a lot of the tests themselves suck. Conventional wisdom aside, it’s possible to design a standardized test that is a pretty good measure of what we want kids to learn–including higher-order thinking skills. The problem is that doing so [...]
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The Wire: Teaching to the Test Revisited
Matt Yglesias makes some thoughtful observations about yesterday’s Wire post, generating a bunch of really interesting comments about NCLB and test prep over on his site. It’s great to see some actual discourse on this topic—both because claims of “unintended consequences” often are unexamined and because they are sure to loom large when [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.