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PEMD-93-21R 1 (1993-04-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackhg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4f General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Program Evaluation and Methodology Division B-252853 April 12, 1993 The Honorable William D. Ford Chairman, Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives The Honorable William F. Goodling Ranking Minority Member IIIII111li Committee on Education and Labor 148936 House of Representatives The Honorable Dale E. Kildee Chairman, Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives The Congress is considering dramatic steps toward the reform of elementary and secondary education that would encourage new standards for teaching and learning, new assessments of student learning linked to those standards, and new policy and oversight bodies and procedures to approve standards and assessments and to report educational results. In response to your earlier request, we are completing a number of reports on national standards and testing. This letter responds to your recent request that we review the proposed policy and oversight arrangements. Below, we review the background to the request, including the specific questions you asked and our approach to answering them. We then summarize our results in brief, present the framework that guided our work, and discuss the proposed arrangements and the implications we see for congressional action. We conducted our work in February and March 1993 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. BACKGROUND In January 1992, the National Council on Education Standards and Testing (NCEST) reported to the Congress and the American people that the absence of standards for educational 1 GAO/PEMD-93-21R Planning for Education Standards (

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