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Rigorous standards serve as the catalyst for successful standards-driven reform.
Black, Hispanic and Native American students still perform well below other students in all subjects at all grade levels. The dropout rate for high school students has remained about the same over the last decade. Rather, the existence of tests depends largely on the political culture of published test results. Most critics of high-stakes testing do not talk about that culture, however. They typically focus on the practice legacy of testing, the ways in which testing creates perverse incentives against good teaching.