YES yes yes! Testing data is GREAT for telling us the socioeconomic status of students or entire schools/districts. That's it. FOREVER there have been and are two factors that are most likely to impact future life outcomes: the education level and income level of a student's parents. Period. See also: Achievement gaps - wherein ed policy analysts lament that big gap in scores between kids on Free/reduced lunch and those not. The solution, somehow, is not providing food and stable housing and healthcare, but instead, in the eyes of ed reformers, more tests so that gaps will close. Seems like maybe these folks missed logic 101 and/or were never hungry, unhoused, or facing a medical emergency that devastated their family.
YES yes yes! Testing data is GREAT for telling us the socioeconomic status of students or entire schools/districts. That's it. FOREVER there have been and are two factors that are most likely to impact future life outcomes: the education level and income level of a student's parents. Period. See also: Achievement gaps - wherein ed policy analysts lament that big gap in scores between kids on Free/reduced lunch and those not. The solution, somehow, is not providing food and stable housing and healthcare, but instead, in the eyes of ed reformers, more tests so that gaps will close. Seems like maybe these folks missed logic 101 and/or were never hungry, unhoused, or facing a medical emergency that devastated their family.