North Carolina, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, and Arizona have America's best testing programs, according to Testing the Testers 2002, a new report from the Princeton Review. These ratings are based on 25 indicators in four key areas: alignment of a state's test to its curriculum standards, quality of the test, openness of the testing program to public scrutiny, and the extent to which the accountability system supports school improvement. The aim of the report is to spotlight behavior that supports or undermines good teaching and learning as the fifty states race to comply with the testing requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. Princeton Review says this is the first of an annual series and that the criteria and methodology will be refined in subsequent editions. To download a copy, surf to www.review.com/stateStudymsg.cfm.
