The OP was talking about teaching to tests, which generally means 12th grade proficiencies. No Child Left Behind has made that common practice. The proficienci

The OP was talking about teaching to tests, which generally means 12th grade proficiencies. No Child Left Behind has made that common practice. The proficiencies are more than anything designed to test the quality of a given school's education and measure their progress. School districts' federal (and often state) funding and various other things are determined by their results on those tests. My statement was that there isn't really a better metric. Does that explain it better?