i-Ready

Right

... uh, particularly i-Ready, uh, from, um, I think it's, uh, Curriculum Associates is the, the owner of i-Ready, and the MAP test from NWEA.

The whole edifice amounts to a, anyw- estimated, extrapolated, um, and this is from EdFirst, amounts to anywhere between $3 and $5 billion just on spending on testing nationally.

So a lot of these tests are required by the districts beyond what the state does and beyond what the federal government does.

... is to, is to raise your federal test scores, that's not necessarily being, uh, accomplished-

Right

... by, by using i-Ready.

So, uh, the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA, which was the successor, as you pointed out, to the Many Children Left Behind Act that so many of us were, were, uh, were doing our best-

Um, you mentioned, um, you know, this like instructed peers concept.

So I'm thinking about in my district, like local norms then would be a powerful thing if I had, you know, everybody in the grade took, uh, DIBELS and i-Ready and whatever district measures we're taking, and I had a list of all the students in the grade and could look at, you know, the bottom 10% in that grade because they're all being instructed in a similar manner.

Is that kind of, um-

Yeah