NAEP Board Worries States Excluding Too Many From Tests
Vienna, Va.
The question, ultimately, is which children to leave behind when the testing starts.
Members of the governing board that oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, meeting here in closed session earlier this month, grappled with how to report 2002 reading results for states that have had large changes in the percent of students excluded from the exam.
The concern is that high exclusion rates, or large swings in those rates, may influence the accuracy of NAEP results, as well as...
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