Kentucky's dumbed-down and statistically distorted CATS school assessment continues to draw unwanted attention to itself. With status quo apologists like Kentucky Association of School Administrators President Roger Marcum continuing to talk, the added scrutiny is sure to continue:
"We're making much too big a deal of this change," he said. Marion County also is focusing on unadjusted scores. Marcum suggested that districts use another measure of assessment, such as the National Assessment of Education Progress, to track progress.
Marcum should know the problems with CATS are a very big deal and he should know NAEP is specifically not designed for the kind of analysis he suggests. That he would make a comment like this publicly doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the people running our schools. We really need an independent auditor measuring the progress of our schools.
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