Standardized Test Scores are Incompatible with Your School’s Equity Plan

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The primary goal of public education is to teach all children fairly.  

 
But since its inception, the system has never been set up to actually accomplish this.  

 
So these days you hear a lot of talk about fixing the problem – of how we can ensure students of color and other historically underserved children get the same high-quality education racially and economically privileged kids always have received.

 
This almost always concludes with two types of plan.  

 
First, there is the serious venture made up of things like increasing spending to meet student need, wraparound services, early intervention, reducing class size, redistributive justice and cultural competence – a plan that looks the reality in the face and makes bold attempts to come to terms with it. 

 
Then there is the cheap knockoff proposition – a buzzword-laden scheme where someone is…

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