New, Magical Tests

This Anthony Cody post is excellent. Of course, the DOE's fantasy is that the $350m that they blew on writing new, magical tests is going to produce new, magical tests. It's not. What we're going to have is simply more tests with more people sorting through the meaningless data and jumping to invalid conclusions. And probably this--- in some pockets where there is enough pre-existing tech investment, some small groups of already well-funded kids are going to take a pilot of the new, magical tests-- the results of which will probably show once again that the kids aren't inundated by a the rising tide of poverty.