I agree with the quote from Jim Warford (former school chancellor for Florida), “We can’t afford to focus on our earliest learners, and then ignore what happens to them later on.” Middle and high schools can ruin the best elementary school education.

One obvious way to improve middle and high school education is to use data generated by testing in the elementary grades. This is the lasting benefit of testing early and often. Unfortunately, teachers and administrators do not communicate with one another, and the information is lost from grade to grade and level to level.