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How Colleges Can Help Close K-12 Achievement Gaps

December 30, 2022

Via: Inside Higher Ed

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I’ve gotten a fair amount of pushback on my piece on K-12 school reform and the failure of grade schools, middle schools, and high schools, to close achievement gaps. Those comments deserve a detailed response.

As some of my correspondents have pointed out:

1. The standardized tests used to assess student learning don’t count toward students’ grades and may therefore provide inaccurate and misleading measures of student knowledge and skills.

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