Jill Barshay of The Hechinger Report cited the Winston Group’s David Winston’s recent column for Roll Call on the importance of the National Assessment of Education Progress:
Other supporters of the test are making their case in the media. William Bennett, education secretary under former President Ronald Reagan, penned an open letter along with conservative commentator Chester Finn in The 74, urging McMahon to preserve NAEP, calling it “the single most important activity of the department.” Then Bennett teamed up with Lamar Alexander, the education secretary under former President George H.W. Bush, with an opinion piece on the Fox News website that said NAEP was chief among the three most important functions at the Education Department that should be preserved. David Winston, a Republican consultant who worked for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, wrote a piece in Roll Call, headlined “We must protect NAEP.”
Read her full column here.
