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Friday, October 14, 2011

Schools Matter: The Real Truth About Testing Costs

Schools Matter: The Real Truth About Testing Costs:

The Real Truth About Testing Costs

Bill Tucker, who heads up the corporate education PR firm, Education Sector, has an op-ed in Ed Week that is being plastered around by the hedge fund crowd while "thought leaders" like Rotherham and Finn work overtime to come up with a good or even sensible answer to the question that American parents, teachers, and children are demanding an answer to: Why Another Generation of Failed and Harmful High Stakes Testing Policies?

The answer that Tucker puts forward leans heavily on a
"2010 study by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, or SCOPE, which is led by the respected professor Linda Darling-Hammond."
At first I took this mean that Darling-Hammond participated in the study, but when I followed the link to SCOPE, I