After decades of corporate reform in our public schools, the results are in. And it's not good news for the reformers.  On the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is the only assessment nationally normed and administered, this year' results showed stagnation over prior years tests, and increases in gaps between the highest-performing students and the lowest. The evidence rolls in persuasively that administering more and more assessments - diagnostic, district, state, and now nationally - in an effort to increase test scores - with the added costs and consequences of higher class sizes and fewer classes in #education #reform #gap the arts and humanities - have resulted in no improvement in reading or math scores.  It's time to stop the testing madness, and time to return to what engages our learners in our schools...it sure isn't more testing and more test preparation. …see more