Education On The Line

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Making Sense Of Test Scores in the Trump Era -- Without The Politics

Making Sense Of Test Scores in the Trump Era -- Without The Politics18 Nov 202538 min

Educators are barraged with a range of test scores from K-12 schools that are often confusing and seem to conflict with each other. Some show students improving. Others show the opposite. Listen to Linda Darling-Hammond and Pedro Noguera, two of the nation's premier education scholars and advocates, make the case for why we need tests --- not as weapons to label and stigmatize students and schools, but as tools to improve learning. Darling-Hammond, founder and ...