"You want students to give their best, most intense and serious effort when it comes time to take the test. Why should they want to do that?" The "Giving a Shit" factor, from Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social : The Mystery of Eighth Grade Test Results open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

The Mystery of Eighth Grade Test ResultsJill Barshay at Hechinger took a look at the Mississippi “Miracle,” specifically the question of why the miraculous 4th grade test results have not been matched by the 8th grade.open.substack.com