What the decline in SAT scores really means
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Valerie Strauss -- Anybody paying attention to the course of modern school reform will not be very surprised by this news: Newly released SAT scores show that scores in reading, writing and even math are down over last year and have been declining for years. And critical reading scores are the lowest in 40 years.
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No Child Left Behind remains the law of the land, and though the Obama administration has said it is fatally flawed and designed its own reform program, under the Race to the Top brand, the same test-driven accountability measures remain in place.
At some point, all of the evidence will start to convince policy-makers that the punitive test-driven reforms won’t improve academic achievement, especially among the growing numbers of first-generation students and English language-learners. -- Valerie Strauss