Another Wednesday, Another Freedman Gem…And, A Fast PACE Of Disavowing!

You can just about set a clock by it. Today’s column looks at the ESL test in NY. Could this be a case of interest group dissonance, hate tests but like as many kids as possible in bilingual education?

PACE is still frantically working to get out from under the shadow of the recent Fuller “study” on reading scores. More Jacobs here. Meanwhile, here is a new and solid ETS analysis (pdf) of 4th-grade achievement reading from a variety of angles.