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Kentucky Researcher takes on the Federal Government and Education Issues
Education Research From a Parent's Point of View asks the right questions at the right time, when answers are needed by Richard Innes ![]()
A decade ago, I got concerned about what was happening with Kentucky's very aggressive education reform, which was launched by the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) of 1990. My daughter had just received the second lowest of four possible writing scores from Kentucky's new, statewide assessment program. She had won the Kentucky PTA's statewide writing contest one year earlier; so, her writing score certainly seemed out of line. I then learned our high school was in imminent danger of state takeover as a result of this assessment. Our school was one of the strongest high schools in Kentucky, at least by most measures such as numbers of students going on to college and so forth, the entire situation seemed questionable.
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