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Standards, Testing, and Accountability
- Choose the answer that best addresses student learning loss
- Lagging student achievement and the interventions that address it draw readers’ interest
- Median SAT scores have jumped again since the last analysis in 2020
- There’s reason to suspect that the gold standard for academic achievement is losing its shine
- Infrequent national testing in history and civics, limited state results hamper progress