Measuring What Matters: Using Assessment and Accountability to Improve Student Learning

Abstract

This report hails testing and accountability as key to improving student learning. CED cautions, however, that tests are a means, not an end, to school reform. More work must be done to ensure that tests are good measures of learning. CED's K-12 efforts will engage business leaders in sustaining support for performance measurement in education and in identifying and overcoming barriers to delivering public education in new ways