The United States Department of Education issued non-regulatory guidance on Assessment Review on September 25th, 2015. This was a couple weeks before President Obama and Soon-To-Be-Former US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s public announcement for states to limit testing and to have no more than 2% of classroom going towards assessments. Many have predicted this is just another attempt to get rid of district assessments that give clear and meaningful data for students, parents, and teachers. We don’t want our students actually figuring out how to improve quickly when we have all those great state assessments like Smarter Balanced and PARCC that will give us results after kids go onto the next grade, right?
The full document from the US DOE is non-regulatory guidance but considered a “significant guidance document”, whatever the hell that means… When the US DOE issues guidance that is non-regulatory, that means it has not been Congressionally approved by both Houses in the US Congress. Which is how the US DOE likes to operate, without legislative approval…
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