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I was pleasantly surprised to see NBC News publish an editorial by Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Daniel Koretz laying the blame for America’s poor performance on PISA where it belongs: on the test-driven accountability movement. The subheading of the article, titled “American Students Aren’t Getting Smarter and Test-Based ‘Reform’ Initiatives are to Blame” should be a call to arms for politicians and parents:

It’s time to stop pretending that test-based accountability is improving schools, and turn to other approaches that will create less harm.

I won’t recount Mr. Koretz’s argument point-by-point but do urge readers of this blog to read the editorial in its entirety because Mr. Koretz makes the case for abandoning test-driven accountability for more elegantly and eloquently than I could. This is a must read.