This paper outlines a cooperative governance scheme between the states
and the federal government that will be used to develop a national
student assessment program for public K-12 education. The proposed
structure is based upon theories of democratic experimentalism and
policy diffusion. The proposal is aimed at addressing the current
problems in the No Child Left Behind Act, which include the interstate
disparities in education quality, the narrowing of school curricula,
the failure to test appropriate subjects, and the invalidity of test
results. This is issue is timely because of the upcoming
reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act and recent teacher
performance-pay proposals, which rely on test scores in determining
teacher pay.
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