Board Acts to Bring NAEP In Line With ESEA
The board that oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress has approved a series of policy changes, some potentially controversial, to help bring the federally financed testing program into line with new requirements under the revised Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
During its action-packed quarterly meeting, held here May 16-18, the National Assessment Governing Board also endorsed the idea of testing a nationally representative sample of charter school students in reading and mathematics in 2003. The board will not make a final decision until August.
Chester E. Finn Jr., the president of the Washington-based Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and a former chairman of the governing board, made the request on behalf of a loose coalition of groups that support charter schools, which are self-governing public schools. Although nearly 2,400 such schools now operate in the United States, he noted, enrolling almost 580,000 students, no national data on student...
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