The Hechinger Report – Nichole Dobo
“During his final stop this week on a tour of schools in four states and the District of Columbia, the acting U.S. Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., defended the importance of academic achievement testing. The “Opportunity Across America Tour” brought him Friday to Delaware, a state that was in the national spotlight in 2010 when it earned more than $119 million in federal funding to reform its public schools. The nation’s second-smallest state was among the first – along with Hawaii and Oregon – to use computers for adaptive academic achievement tests, which change the difficulty of questions based on how a student performs. But it is also one of 13 states cited by the federal government last year for low participation on the annual state tests.”(more)