Bridging Differences: Who's Afraid of Curriculum?

Diane Ravitch responds

You end with a swipe at the NAEP proficiency cut points. It's true that they have been criticized by various reviews; it is also true that the NAEP staff and board commissioned most of those reviews and have responded to them over the years. Without question, NAEP is the most heavily studied, analyzed, and evaluated testing program in the United States. I also think it is a better test than any state test that I have seen. If you want to know what it "covers," go to the NAEP website and you will find curriculum frameworks for every subject tested, as well as large numbers of sample questions in each subject. I don't know of any other test that is as forthcoming in describing in detail what it covers.

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