WHEREAS, the AFT has always supported high standards for students and high-quality tests; and WHEREAS, the standards students must meet are unacceptably low and the tests they most frequently take do ...

This chapter discusses the relationships between formative and summative assessments—both in the classroom and externally. In addition to teachers, site-and district-level administrators and decision ...

WHEREAS, because the AFT strongly supports standards-based reform, including appropriate testing, it is especially outrageous that this critical reform is threatened by uninformed implementation. The ...

America’s students are not being educated as well these days as they should be. A key reason for this calamity is that we currently use the wrong tests to make our most important educational decisions ...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. It fulfills a ...

The Student Congress Assessment Committee utilizes standards from the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS). To learn more about this consortium, please visit the CAS ...

State education administrators often say, “It’s all about the kids,” yet their actions suggest it’s more about protecting adult reputations than improving student outcomes. They all want students to ...

The Office of Accreditation and Education Effectiveness (OAEE) supports the College’s mission by coordinating ongoing and systematic programmatic and student learning assessments. The OAEE ...

They come from different education and career backgrounds, and they work in distant divisions at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. But after only a few minutes of conversation, it’s abundantly clear that ...

The National Science Education Standards are designed to guide our nation toward a scientifically literate society. Founded in exemplary practice and research, the Standards describe a vision of the ...