In 22 essays, Don Graves shows how testing encroaches on teacher freedom; considers how narrow standards can actually reduce student achievement; asks questions

In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student ach

How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and

America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing

State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the sa