Local boards need to be more concerned with the results of state and district assessments, rather than a broad, national assessment. Beware of the folly of narrowly focusing on one test or many tests. School board members also need to ask some other questions to get a sense of whether their students are performing well in school. These are all measures of student engagement and student achievement. There's the student who completes a winning science project, the student who plays a leading role in a Black History Month project, or the student who publishes a great student newspaper, for example.
Achievement comes in many forms.