Education Department Seeks to Bring Test-based Assessment to Teacher Prep Programs

Learning Teaching: News Digest

The Obama administration wants to expand the use of standardized test scores as an accountability tool from K-12 into higher education. The Education Department just tried — and failed — to persuade a group of negotiators to agree to regulations that would rate colleges of education in large part on how K-12 students being taught by their graduates perform on standardized tests. As part of this scheme, financial aid to students in these programs would not be based entirely on need but, rather, would also be linked to test scores. The post is from The Washington Post’s The Answer Sheet blog.

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