Letters

To the Editor:

Your front-page article ( "Testing's Ups and Downs Predictable," Jan. 26, 2000) may need a correction or an addition. You write, "Of the states in the early stages of testing, only Massachusetts failed to post significant gains in the second year of its new assessment," suggesting that most states climb their first few years.

I don't believe one would say that we have made significant gains here in Colorado. We began the Colorado State Assessment Program in the spring of 1997, so we now have three years of results for the 4th graders throughout the state...