COVID-19 Tracker Update: March 23rd (Evening)
By Dale Chu Here’s the latest: Since this morning, several states have announced waiver approval from the U.S. Department of Education and a few have updated their plans to suspend or cancel assessments. We have verified through publicly available sources that 10 additional states have had their waivers approved. They are: Connecticut, Louisiana, Michigan, North […]
COVID-19 Tracker Update: March 23rd
By Dale Chu I hope you’re buckled up for more action on state testing this week. Since our last update on Friday, six states—Alabama, Arkansas, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon, and Wyoming—have taken steps to cancel testing or obtain a waiver. Two states, Hawaii and Wyoming, have publically announced that their waiver was already approved. According to […]
COVID-19 Tracker Update: March 20th (Evening)
By Dale Chu As expected, new developments on state testing are happening fast and furiously. Since this morning, Alabama, D.C., Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Dakota have expressed their intent to pursue a waiver. In addition, North Dakota has canceled spring testing, and Rhode Island is postponing. Please stay tuned. COVID-19 State End-of-Year Assessment […]
COVID-19 Tracker Update: March 20th
By Dale Chu Since yesterday’s post, three more states have made moves. With today’s announcement by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos of broad waivers from federal testing requirements, it seems more and more likely that state assessments will be significantly delayed if not outright canceled in many, perhaps all, states. Losing these assessments means […]
COVID-19 Tracker Update: March 19th (Evening)
By Dale Chu As predicted, states are quickly updating their positions. Valerie Strauss from the Washington Post has a write up here. Since our update this morning, three more states have made moves on testing: Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Utah. The tracker below reflects these changes. COVID-19 State End-of-Year Assessment [table id=2 /]
COVID-19 Tracker Update: March 19th
By Dale Chu As promised, this is the first in a series of updates to the COVID-19 end-of-year assessment status tracker we launched yesterday. With conversations happening between a number of national organizations, including the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and the U.S. Department of Education, we’re expecting states to update their positions […]
State testing at a crossroads
By Dale Chu With the remainder of the school year up in the air because of the coronavirus, a growing number of states have announced or are contemplating the cancelation of testing this spring. Nationwide, nearly 40 million students have been impacted by the closures, representing 74,000 schools. To help keep track of where states […]
State testing at a crossroads
By Dale Chu With the remainder of the school year up in the air because of the coronavirus, a growing number of states have announced or are contemplating the cancelation of testing this spring. Nationwide, nearly 40 million students have been impacted by the closures, representing 74,000 schools. To help keep track of where states […]
Don’t test, don’t tell
By Dale Chu As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to accelerate, the most telling response to the closing of schools across over 30 states (and counting) is that the overriding concern appears to be students’ access to meals. It goes without saying that feeding children is a must, but food should be table stakes in […]
Testing is important? You don’t say…
By Dale Chu With the novel coronavirus dominating the headlines, disrupting schools, and upending lives, my friend Michael Petrilli recently made a droll observation calling attention to the irony in how testing is viewed in education versus in medicine now that we’re in the midst of a public health crisis. As it stands, one of […]