From "The Answer Sheet" at The Washington Post -By Valerie Strauss January 14 Follow @valeriestrauss   >   >   >   > Back in 2014, I ran a post titled, “A very scary headline about kindergartners,” which started this way: Rob Saxton is Oregon’s deputy superintendent of public instruction. Jada Rupley is the early learning system director within the state Department of Education. Together they wrote an op-ed in the Oregonian that was published online with this headline: Kindergarten test results a ‘sobering snapshot’ What could possibly be sobering about test results from kindergartners? What kind of tests are they giving to kindergartners anyway? It turns out that every … [Read more...]