Startling proof that teach to the test doesn’t work (& great news about schools on military bases!) — NAEP test scores of African American & white children are very close; in one instance the scores of African American children are actually higher than those of public school children as a whole. Schools on military bases are free to ignore No Child Left Behind: “…standardized tests do not dominate and are not used to rate teachers, principals or schools….[they] are used as originally intended, to identify a child’s academic weaknesses and assess the effectiveness of the curriculum.” cc Blue Star Families, National Council on Educating Black Children
Military Children Outdo Public School Students on NAEP Tests
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In the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, schools on the nation’s military bases again outperformed public schools.
