Standards & Testing
Featured Headline
Standards are accepted or required bodies of knowledge that students must know and be able to do in every subject, at every grade. Testing or assessment often -- though not always -- measure how those standards are met. The education world is awash in standards and testing talk. It’s critical to understand.
What We Believe
High standards are essential in ensuring that every student is prepared for and able to move on to each grade, and that tests, developed at the state level and correlated directly to the standards, are critical to gauge progress. We believe that every parent in America and every teacher to whom parents entrust their children deserve to have high, measurable standards against which to gauge the progress of the enterprise for which they share responsibility. We believe in accountability as a consequence of performance measured against stated measures of proficiency. Any school that consistently fails its students, no matter where those schools are or the demographics of its children, should be closed.
Latest Updates
A new study conducted by the University of Chicago finds that while graduation rates have had significant growth, learning gains have been modest, racial gaps have widened and many students have academic achievement...
Resources
Achieve, Inc. helps states raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments and strengthen accountability.
http://www.achieve.org/
Common Core promotes programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences.
http://www.commoncore.org/
Nation’s Report Card
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
SAT
http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research