Close the grade and test-score gap and the affirmative action debate ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Clarence Page: "A Problem Bigger Than Busing"] Reference

Closing the test-score gap was the ostensible reason for NCLB in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Sacks: Can Public Schools Fix the Achievement Gap? Yes, But They Won't] Reference

Colorado College is among the most recent colleges to relax test-score requirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [American University goes fully 'test-optional'] Reference

The official teachers union response to the Fenty/Rhee test-score improvement claim (Shanker Blog).    From Wordnik.com.  [DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 2, 2010] Reference

I kept hoping that someone would be even a tiny bit skeptical about our test-score driven schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Merrow: Four Days IN Education Nation] Reference

"The fact is that test-score comparisons tell us little about the quality of education in any country.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald Bracey: Is TIMSS Meaningful?] Reference

The basic idea of VAA is that teacher quality can be measured by the test-score gains of their students.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ravitch: The pitfalls of putting economists in charge of education] Reference

It was part of a larger effort to help close persistent test-score gaps between black and white students.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black students' field trip draws parents' anger in Michigan] Reference

After an initial adjustment period, students generally see large test-score achievement gains in suburban schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public School Choice for DC Kids?] Reference

As soon as you say something like, 'Well, could the black-white test-score gap be genetics?' everybody gets tensed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roland G. Fryer Jr., Slave Ships and Salt] Reference

In addition, more D.C. schools are failing to meet the rising test-score targets of the federal No Child Left Behind law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fenty's political fortunes tied to success of D.C. school reforms] Reference

Other collaborations involve IMPACT, the new teacher evaluation system that uses test-score growth to assess some teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. teachers' contract has a familiar ring to it] Reference

Instead, they should brag about the U.S. economy and impugn the quality and validity of the international test-score comparisons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald Bracey: Getting it Backwards] Reference

Yet the overuse and misuse of test-score data, much in vogue now among government policymakers and district leaders, is not supported by the research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing teachers without fetishizing test-based reforms] Reference

Still, experts caution that value-added analysis is far from perfect, not least because its only measure of student learning is standardized test-score results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justin Snider: New York City Teachers, Don't Bank On Privacy] Reference

This year, only about 20 percent of the District's classroom teachers -- reading and math instructors in grades 4 through 8 -- were evaluated on test-score growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhee dismisses 241 D.C. teachers; union vows to contest firings] Reference

That's because those were the only grades and subjects for which there is annual test-score data from the District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessment System, or DC CAS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhee dismisses 241 D.C. teachers; union vows to contest firings] Reference

"Given those levels of effort, are the test-score results at all surprising?" asks Richard Arum, co-author of the study and book, and a sociologist at New York University.    From Wordnik.com.  [College Test Leaves Questions Unanswered] Reference

I spoke to L.A. teachers, who were shamed by the Los Angeles Times 'disgraceful release of test-score data and ratings of 6,000 elementary teachers as more or less effective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ravitch: Why teachers should never be rated by test scores] Reference

They want to make all public school teachers "at-will employees," then be able to hire and fire and promote at will the most accomplished bootlickers and test-score promoters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olympia Wrap Up, Pt. 1 « PubliCola] Reference

Among those subgroups, our students with disabilities made the largest test-score improvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [QCOnline Metro News] Reference

Results: Only one model produced statistically significant test-score gains across both years of the study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education Week American Education News Site of Record] Reference

There also is spotty test-score evidence as to whether students in districts run by mayors do any better than others.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

New York City's teachers 'union, the United Federation of Teachers, pushed the legislature to adopt the test-score ban.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Review Online] Reference

New York's state legislature gave teachers a gift last year by banning the use of student test-score data in tenure decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Review Online] Reference

That same report said test-score gains for scholarship students in 2007-08 were on a par with students of all income levels nationally.    From Wordnik.com.  [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference

The schools, most of which are charter schools in low-income neighborhoods, have won accolades for the impressive test-score gains their students make.    From Wordnik.com.  [AssortedStuff] Reference

A brief follow-up this morning to my criticism of the Los Angeles Times 'disclosure of point estimates from a single model of teacher test-score raising prowess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sherman Dorn] Reference

As Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, has pointed out, the Los Angeles school district has had the test-score data for years but didn't use it to help teachers improve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas] Reference

An English teacher at Apopka High and Orange County's current teacher of the year, Reiker believes in merit pay and welcomes being judged at least partially on test-score data.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference