![](https://www.educationnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/i-scaled.jpg)
Standards, Testing, and Accountability
- First-ever state ranking of charter student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
- Loud debate, but muted effects for students and schools
- First comprehensive analysis finds broad gains in test scores, with larger gains for students of color than white students
- Fewer scientists, more skepticism of science in states that limit evolution instruction
- Fewer arrests where diplomas require a test