State leaders have long recognized the value of statewide tests. But if enforcement diminishes or disappears, as part of the Trump administration’s promise to downsize its role in K-12 schools and “send education back to the states,” would states keep testing? Should they?
In this paper, we contend that the purposes and uses of state testing are so important that states should keep their assessment systems in place regardless of whether the federal law is enforced.
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Related: Read our companion brief, The Case for Statewide School Accountability Systems.
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