Within several months, the most important document in US education testing — the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing — will incorporate the conclusions of biased, irreparably flawed research that favors education's vested interests. School districts and taxpayers will be...

Achieve is corporate America's direct connection to national education policy. Mainstream business leaders seem to trust it, and their foundations give it money. Whether Achieve actually achieves its mission is open to debate. Over two decades, it has grown substantially and spun off several...

The text of this study was published in the International Journal of Testing. The study summarizes the research literature on the effect of testing on student achievement, which comprises several hundred studies conducted from the early 20 century to the present day. Only quantitative studies...

The “Greene Method” of calculating school “graduation rates” and the Manhattan Institute (MI) criticisms of official graduation and completion statistics are outlined and scrutinized. The methodology fails to recognize the complexity of the issue and appears to ignore the considerable...

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Political realities dictate that, as with any tests, passing scores on those developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) will be set at a level that avoids having an unacceptable number of students fail. Since Massachusetts is by far the highest...

John Jacob Cannell’s late 1980s reports caught all U.S. states asserting that their students’ average scores on national norm-referenced tests were “above the national average.” The phenomenon was dubbed the “Lake Wobegon Effect,” in tribute to the mythical radio comedy community of...