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This spring, the Detroit Free Press announced that it would no longer rank schools and districts based simply on scores from statewide tests. The newspaper reached its verdict after conducting a six-month computer analysis of results from the Michigan Educational Assessment Program. It found that poverty and other factors outside a school’s control were so strongly linked to test scores that it made straight-up comparisons “inevitably flawed” and “mostly meaningless.”
