Ep. 57 - Oct. 19, 2016: Test Prep or True Learning?

There's plenty of evidence that students attending "no excuses" charter schools can do extremely well on standardized tests, but do the benefits of this approach to education extend beyond test scores? In this episode of the Education Next podcast, Marty West talks with Blake Heller of Harvard University, the co-author of a new article, "Raising More Than Test Scores," available at http://educationnext.org/raising-more-than-test-scores-noble-charter-no-excuses/