A Foot vs. 6 Feet
TAAS is fine at telling us what percentage of our kids can jump a foot. But what about the question, how high can all kids jump? Nothing is telling us that. Nothing with any bite anyway. As long as it's just okay for all kids to jump a foot, and we're not accountable to ensure that the kid who can jump 6 feet is jumping 6 feet, then the standards will continue to drop (with the accompanying hype about how weĠre improving). We need an accountability system with the same bite where principals think they might lose their jobs if that really smart kid isn't jumping 6 feet.