That said as far as I am concerned schools shouldn’t be trying to measure anything other than what the students have learned.
...and yet the appearance is anything and everything but reading writing history, science, civics and arithmetic.
Because to measure will lay bare uncomfortable truths regarding the learning capacities of the population.
“No child left behind” nice slogan, virtue signaling to attract the “soccer mom” vote. However counter to the that is the reality that a certain percentage will be left behind no matter what you do. It doesn’t make any difference how much you spend, do or how many theories you concoct on “how to educate”. A certain number will chose not to be educated and a certain number can’t be! Nothing will change that!