Study Finds Flaws In AYP Growth Models.

Education Week (4/1, Sparks) reported, "Amid battles over teacher quality and school restructuring, there's one thing everyone seems to want in the next version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: an accountability system that measures student growth. Yet the results of the U.S. Department of Education's growth-model pilot program, whose final evaluation was released earlier this year, suggest lawmakers may have to do some heavy lifting to include growth in accountability." According to Education Week, "Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told House education committee members at a hearing last month: '[W]e mean a system of accountability based on individual student growth-one that recognizes and rewards success and holds us all accountable for the quality of education we provide to every single student in America.'"