Peter Greene minces no words (nor should he): "one element of Learning Loss is just plain made up," he writes. "There is no reason to believe that getting Pat to score higher on the Big Standardized Test will earn Pat more money at work and a better life. None. Raising Pat's test score above the score that Pat would have achieved in some other unboosted alternate universe accomplishes nothing except getting Pat a higher score." This, though, won't stop the hucksters from trying to convert learning loss panic into a money tree.
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