Should Schools Test the 'Career' Half of 'College and Career'?

Education Week: As states move to adopt college- and career-ready accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, many educators and researchers argue that assessments will not be able to adequately measure the "career" part of that equation.

"Over the years, we've built tests that measure better and better whether a student will be able to get at least a C in their first year of college—but they explain almost nothing about whether a student will succeed in an occupation," said Anthony Carnevale, the director of Georgetown University's Center...

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