Test Scores No True Measure of Success
Who and what are served by comparing California Learning Assessment Standards test scores?
Scores are predictable. High numbers of English as a second language students, transient populations, and cultures that do not give a high priority to education, always score lower. Schools do not get to pick the students they serve.
Low test scores inaccurately reflect the quality of the schools and teachers. When will a test score indicate success rather than failure? Taking an immigrant and teaching him or her to read and write in English--even at a beginning level--is a success.
ADRIENNE MACK, Shadow Hills
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