E.D., NAEP Board Spar Over Plan To Limit Tests

By Debra Viadero

Washington

The board charged with setting policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress is at odds with the Education Department's top statisticians over plans to limit the state-level testing program to just one subject and one grade level next year.

Since 1990, the NAEP program, known as "the nation's report card,'' has been providing states with data on how their students fared on its assessments. In 1992, 41 states participated in the program, and students were given tests in 4th-grade reading and in...

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