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Nebraska Goes Against The Grain
04/09/08
07:41:37 am, Categories: Announcements [A] "The [Nebraska State] Legislature voted 33-15 to give Legislative Bill 1157 its final approval. That sends the bill to Gov. Dave Heineman with enough support to override any veto.
"The vote sets the stage for Nebraska to end a testing system that differs from school district to school district. Critics say that system keeps schools from being fully accountable to the public because a school district can be accurately compared only to itself.
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"B 1157 won broad support among urban senators from Omaha and Lincoln and senators from Nebraska’s immigration centers, such as Grand Island and Schuyler. The entire Education Committee also voted in support."
"Can scores on one test be made interpretable in terms of scores on other tests? Can we have more uniform data about student performance from our healthy hodgepodge of state and local programs?”
“After deliberation that lasted nine months, involving intensive review of the technical literature and consideration of every possible methodological nuance, the committee’s answer was a blunt ‘no.’”[1]
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