Educators understand the importance of assessments and accountability. However, most express concern that any assessment should help them improve education for the students in their classrooms. Simply developing a scoreboard without identifying the societal factors that influence results does not help the education system become more legitimately accountable to those it serves. This report by the Horace Mann League and the National Superintendents Roundtable compares the US with eight other nations. It is grounded in the conviction that student and public school performance must be understood in the context of the economic, social and cultural environments in which school systems function. Too often, . . . policymakers, educators, and the public are inclined to narrow their focus to a few things that are easily tested. They become captives of the results and their goal becomes raising test scores rather than developing fully educated people. To avoid that mentality, [this report] emphasizes the power of a consistent and comprehensive framework that looks at all the measures involved in shaping our future citizens. We certainly have developed a scoreboard mentality here in Nashville. We must look deeper to better understand what drives the test scores in our schools, which will inform how we improve outcomes for all children.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:10:51 +0000
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