Pre-travel traveling, better known as "Assess or Die"

Met many new friends at the midwestern assessment conference this last week. Assessment is alive and well in many places and many care deeply about doing it with rigor and integrity. I will say, though, that assessing is a struggle. Getting people to care about assessing is a struggle.

But if educators and education workers keep denying the need for meaningful, rigorous assessment or keep trying to take an approach with less integrity, we're going to lose our voice in the accountability debates.