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Direct linkRotberg, Iris C. – Educational Leadership, 2006
The current preoccupation in the United States with test-based accountability is founded on a set of faulty assumptions--about education practices elsewhere in the world, about international test score comparisons, and about the extent to which test scores are valid indicators of the quality of education or the state of the economy. For example,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Standardized Tests, Scores
