The Texas Tribune

After six years of low scores for students learning English, Texas educators say it’s the test’s fault

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Education Week

Student Test Scores Keep Falling. What’s Really to Blame?

Ever since COVID-19 closed U.S. schools for in-person instruction in March 2020, questions about pandemic learning loss have shaped reactions to new data on student learning. How much did achievement ...
The Conversation

Texas’ annual reading test adjusted its difficulty every year, masking whether students are improving

Texas children’s performance on an annual reading test was basically flat from 2012 to 2021, even as the state spent billions of additional dollars on K-12 education. I recently did a peer-reviewed ...