The Washington Post – Jay Mathews
“One of the unexamined consequences of the new emphasis on test scores to measure student progress and educator effectiveness is that teachers are beginning to standardize their own tests. . . . Frances Ivey, Fairfax County curriculum and instruction director, said that teachers work hard on those questions and that some want to keep them so they can use them again to help more students find their weak spots. Common assessments also help identify teachers having trouble communicating the lesson.”(more)