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Grade span testing dramatically reduces the number of tests students would take over the course of their education. Unfortunately, it also sacrifices the ability to measure students’ growth from year to year in a content area and dramatically reduces what we would know about what works in education.

In a recent post on the Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard, Helen Ladd urges states to experiment with replacing test-based accountability with school inspections, visits by trained experts who rate the schools they visit and then issue reports.

Guided by the recent Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states are scrambling to incorporate nonacademic skills into school measurement systems, raising the question: “What measures should schools use and for which purpose?”

Senior Researcher Elias Walsh looks into helping provide meaningful feedback to "invisible teachers" - those who leave the profession feeling as though they have made no progress with their students.

On the one hand, value-added measures, like chainsaws, can be powerful tools and really useful for the right problem, like cutting down a tree. On the other hand, chainsaws, like VAMs, can do a lot of damage if you’re not careful and don’t know what you’re doing.

Principals have almost as much of an impact on student achievement as teachers do. Indeed, we found in a study of school reform in Washington, D.C., that replacing ineffective principals improves student achievement. But how do we distinguish good principals from bad ones?

How do we identify great teachers and help all teachers improve their craft? The best option may be to combine student growth measures, observations of teachers in the classroom, and student surveys.

The world of education is becoming inundated with data, and the growing use of technology in schools has made it even easier to collect and report data continuously.

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