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Texas’ annual reading test adjusted its difficulty every year, masking whether students are improving

By Jeanne Sinclair, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland

A deep dive into the test’s framework reveals it was designed to fail about the same share of students every year, even if they’d made actual progress from previous years.

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