Conservative Group Seeks To End State NAEP Program

By David Hoff

Washington

While political leaders from both parties are aiming to raise the stakes for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, some conservatives are mounting a campaign to scale it back.

The Home School Legal Defense Association says it is building a coalition to try to end the practice of collecting state samples of student achievement in the federally sponsored testing program.

The critics assert that the program's 10-year-old practice of providing state-by-state scores has encouraged states to revise their testing...