You can’t know what you don’t measure, and you can’t accurately track progress if the tool keeps changing.

Yet, Oklahoma leaders at the Oklahoma State Department of Education want to change testing requirements again and are proposing using tools that are not designed to measure whether students have mastered the state content standards.

Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters announced plans earlier this month to eliminate end-of-year standards-based assessments in grades 3–8 for reading and math. The plan, which requires the U.S. Department of Education to waive federal law, proposes replacing Oklahoma’s custom-built single statewide test administered every spring with a variety of district-procured instructional tests administered multiple times a year.

Walters is bill

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