After The New York Times ran a front-page story on an anti-testing study by Audrey Amrein and David Berliner last month, there was an immediate response from researchers across the political spectrum noting the many shortcomings of the study. [See http://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?issue=6#412 for one example.] In a column for the Rocky Mountain News, Linda Seebach takes a close look at the data used in the report and finds even more problems with the conclusions drawn by Amrein and Berliner.
"All the Marbles," by Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News, January 11, 2003