This week, Fordham’s president emeritus Checker Finn and Laura Hamilton of the Center for Assessment join us for a polite debate on whether school quality should be judged by more than test scores.
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- The mixed blessing of new school measures —Chester E. Finn, Jr., Thomas B. Fordham
- Our assessment systems should reflect the purposes of public education —Laura Hamilton, Center for Assessment
- #971: A “Quality Check” on school accountability, with Tom Toch and Lynn Olson —The Education Gadfly Show
- Do we know how to measure school quality? —Van Schoales, Education Week
- Gender Gaps in the Early Grades: Questioning the Narrative that Schools are Poorly Suited to Young Boys — Megan Kuhfeld and Margaret Burchinal, Annenberg Institute at Brown University (2025)
- Redshirt the boys—Richard V. Reeves for The Atlantic
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