Could 'Open Source' Testing Help Resolve the Testing Impasse?
While there is wide disagreement about how to revise the No Child Left Behind Act’s accountability system when the law comes up for reauthorization in the next Congress, there is virtual unanimity on one point: No one is happy with the tests currently used by states to measure student achievement.
The two leading proposals to overhaul the federal testing system are, at least at first glance, diametrically opposed.
Hard-line education reformers, such as New York City Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein and former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education Chester E. Finn Jr., are advocating a national test and national standards, as a response to what they see as the “dumbing down” of standards in the face of accountability pressures, and also as a logical policy for a nation trying to...
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