Assessing the Nation’s Report Card with Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Chester E. Finn, Jr. is a Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Establishment. He’s the author of Evaluating the Nation’s Report Card: Troubles and Options with the NAEP. He joins host Mike Palmer in a discussion about the history of the NAEP, its problems and alternatives, and the importance of owning a shared set of criteria for instructional overall performance throughout the nation. You can study additional about the NAEP by checking out Overhauling the Nation’s Report Card.
We begin by hearing Chester’s origin story dating back to operating in the Johnson Administration and for Daniel Patrick Moynihan right before commencing to function with the NAEP in 1969. From there we dig into the ability of “low-stakes tests” like the NAEP in providing a browse on tutorial general performance whilst not penalizing college students, academics, or universities based mostly on performance. We communicate about lifestyle wars and politicization and how to stay clear of several of the pitfalls there whilst also steering clear of the wide brush assaults on standardized screening as a full. We conclude with Chester’s examine on new success which are troubling in advance of wrapping up. Never miss this deep dive into how we get a study on how the nation is performing in instruction!
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