We honored Ann Cook, longtime educator and champion of performance-based assessment and founder of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, and Cong. Jamaal Bowman, former principal and advocate for ESSA testing reform in the House as 2023 Deborah Meier Heroes of Education. It was a great night! Thanks to all who came and contributed.
In her remarks, Ann looked back on the accomplishments of the New York Performance Standards Consortium which over the course of 25 years has established the premier system for graduating students using performance based assessments instead of standardized tests. She warned of “test creep” in the form of “interim” and “through-year” assessments and how maintaining a test-based culture is antithetical to an assessment system that is authentic to deeper student learning and lets kids demonstrate what they can really do. The full text of her remarks can be read here.




