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States Must Test Student Learning This Year, Biden Administration Says

By Anya Kamenetz
Published February 23, 2021 at 11:11 AM MST
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Annual state testing was canceled last year because of the pandemic. Many states want to skip it again, but the Education Department says no.

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Anya Kamenetz
Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent at NPR. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration, the Grad Rates project.
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