We don’t usually venture into higher ed, but the local angle, the applicability to k-12 education and the fact that it comes from one of my favorite education bloggers (and historians of education) inspired this exception:
Wisconsin is essentially drinking the Kool-Aid of poorly-constructed standardized testing as a proxy for accountability.
The context is the University of Wisconsin’s preemptive and premature embrace of an unproven and unwise accountability system.
Thomas J. Mertz
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