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Are States Dumbing Down Student Achievement Tests?

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Are States ‘Dumbing Down’ Student Achievement Tests? Monday June 18, 2007#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)The U.S. Department of Education has released a report which the Department says may indicate that some states are reducing the difficulty of their standardized student proficiency tests required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In its report Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales, the Department of Education compares the percentages of students in each state who met or exceeded the standards on the state-designed NCLB tests with the percentage who passed the federally-designed National Assessment of Educ