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clogic-191983	Kohn, Alfie	Fighting the Tests: A Practical Guide to Rescuing Our Schools	2019	19	.pdf	application/pdf	9853	397	58	If you are a superintendent or assistant superintendent facing school board members who want to see higher test scores, the most constructive thing you can do is protect principals from these ill-conceived demands to the best of your ability (without losing your job in the process). Every empirical investigation of this question has found that socioeconomic status (SES) in all its particulars accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the variance in test scores when different schools, towns, or states are compared.1 Ignorance would therefore be the most charitable explanation for the publication of charts that rank schools (or towns or states) by these scores -- or for the practice of using those rankings to draw conclusions about classroom practice.	cache/clogic-191983.pdf	txt/clogic-191983.txt