Nominee Betsy DeVos’s Knowledge of Education Basics Is Open to Criticism - The New York Times
Kate Zernike
Asked how school performance should be assessed, she did not know the difference between growth, which measures how much students have learned over a given period, and proficiency, which measures how many students reach a targeted score.
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