Author Seeks Learning Assessment Focused On Information Age

Author Cathy Davidson writes in the Washington Post (9/24, 572K), "We have teachers, out of self-preservation and to protect their schools and their students, teaching to a test that was designed in the era of the Model T. We are 15 years into the information age. Now is the time to begin to rethink how we assess learning for the challenges of the digital world that lie ahead. It's not as simple as filling in the bubbles."