Tests must be improved, NOT test scores
It's that old bugaboo, test scores.
The Education Trust, a bi-partisan advocacy organization, released a study
"Primary Progress, Secondary Challenge" that is troubling.
There is an achievement gap between two tests:
State (developed) Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT)
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Michigan, New Jersey and Oklahoma had large gaps.
The NAEP points to weak [a.k.a. easy] state tests to explain the gap.
Only Massachusetts, South Carolina, Arkansas, California, Hawaii and Maine
posted NAEP and state scores that were in line.
