Getting a Passing Grade in NYS
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 4, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg has boasted about improved tests scores in New York City's schools, but recent findings say it's simply gotten easier to pass the state's tests. Elizabeth Green, editor for Gotham Schools, and Daniel Koretz, professor of education at Harvard and author of Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, talk about these findings, this year's tougher tests and what it all says about the city's claims of better education.

