Nancy Mitchell in the Rocky Mountain News reports today about the Colorado Student Assessment Program:Colorado's $22 million testing program appears headed for replacement after more than a dozen years and scant evidence of improvement in recent results. In other words: Not enough kids are learning fundamental reading skills at the critical junction of 3rd grade. Therefore, some people say it's time to modernize and improve the CSAP, and others want to scrap testing and accountability altogether. The first group has the right idea, provided updating the state's assessment system is done correctly. The second group makes an absurd flight from logic. Imagine if the news story were about a state-funded auto emissions testing program in … [Read more...]