Group Agrees on Draft Framework for NAEP Test in U.S. History

By Robert Rothman

WASHINGTON--Arriving at common ground in one of the most fractious fields in education, a group of educators and public officials has developed a draft framework for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress test in U.S. history.

The draft is expected to undergo some revisions before it is presented to the National Assessment Governing Board in May. The panel drafting the framework was scheduled to meet late this week to go over comments from some 600 reviewers.

But Thomas G. Ward, the coordinator of the project, said the panel has reached a tentative consensus on several key issues that have divided educators...