The new Every Student Succeeds Act puts a premium on federal efforts to help states identify and eliminate low-quality, redundant or unhelpful testing, and new guidance (link is external) announced Feb. 2 by acting U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. moves in that direction.
The document builds on President Obama’s October 2015 announcement on testing and a set of principles the Department of Education released, which emphasized that “assessments must be worth taking and of high quality, enhance teaching and learning, and give an all-around picture of how students and schools are doing.”
