The author discusses the challenge of ensuring that education expenditures yield appropriate academic progress. The best way to accomplish this is to impose on educators accountability such as that found in other professions, according to Greene, who supports making spending dependent on performance by implementing a system of teacher-merit pay.…

Testing and assessment have become extremely important components of the educational program. The purpose of this position paper is to provide factual and policy-related information that may be of use to school boards as they design or improve their districts' testing and assessment policies. It is the New York State policy that school boards…

A bill introduced in the New York State Legislature on April 26, 1979, would require that all tests used for postsecondary or professional school admissions become "public records" after they have been administered. The New York State Education Department is opposed to this bill because it would greatly increase the cost of test…