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What must be done…

Accountability is good but should be based on multiple measures, rather them a single test. We must reject the use of any one test score or single measure as the primary basis for making high-stakes decisions about students. Multiple measures, including grade point averages, teacher opinions and parent judgments could all be used to complete the picture about each student’s progress.

The ideal model for school accountability is one that embraces shared accountability and shared action. Schools should abandon the expensive and inefficient practice of testing all students, and instead, utilize a process of randomly selecting a sample of students to test. This approach would yield the same important information on school quality and performance and would cost a fraction of the current multi-million-dollar price.