For those lawmakers in North Carolina who are still attached to using standardized tests as the benchmark for school effectiveness, then this is for them.

And there was one particular part of the report that was interesting, espcially in North Carolina where we just administered the ACT to all high juniors as a measure of school perforemance.

“At many high schools, they discovered no connection between students’ ACT scores and eventual college graduation. The authors were also surprised to find that, at some high schools, students with the highest ACT scores were less likely to succeed in college.”

North Carolina is one of fewer than 20 states that requires all students (EC, LEP, etc.) to take the ACT, which has no impact on their transcripts, provides no feedback in its scores on how to improve student achievement and is administered on a school day on which other activities and classes take place.

And it takes up most of a day in school disrupting the actual learning that seems to be more indicative of post-secondary success.