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Proficiency and NAEP scores: Let’s stop talking about trivial distinctions and focus on ending inequality instead

The Hechinger Report

It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. Each assessment also covers slightly different curriculum content. Related: When fourth-grade problems include gunfire.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. The George W.