Letters

To the Editor:

The recently released 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading results pose, once again, questions of whether test-driven schooling is effective in improving student learning. While NAEP is, like all exams, limited in what it can measure and should not be taken as a sufficient assessment of reading, it does provide some insight about improvements or the lack thereof. You claim in a recent article that states with standards are the ones that improved ( "States Committed to Standards Reforms Reap NAEP Gains," March 10, 1999). But other interpretations of the results should be considered, and other...