I’ve been really good about not quoting Diane Ravitch, but I’m off the wagon. In a recent blog post she demeans national civil and human rights groups who are working hard to help the U.S. Senate understand the necessity of maintaining ESEA’s mandate of annual standardized testing. As these groups explained in a press release today, “we cannot fix what we cannot measure.”
We all know this. We know that the achievement gap between poor children and wealthier children, between whites and blacks, between children with and without disabilities, was only revealed through states’ analyses of disaggregated data from annual standardized tests.