Must Reads – What Is Student Achievement?

In her blog post about a new study that found the D.C. voucher program did not help raise student achievement, Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss examined how we define student achievement. “It doesn’t much matter if a public school manages to help more kids graduate, or read better, or read at all; if the test scores don’t rise, the schools are labeled failing, and are subject to punitive “restructuring measures” supported by President Obama’s Education Department, led by Secretary Arne Duncan,” Strauss wrote. Source: Washington Post

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