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- 06-22-2010
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Blog by Mark Walsh/Education Week
In 1997, as President Bill Clinton's administration was pursuing an initiative on voluntary national testing, a White House education aide suggested the possibility of a high school test to follow proposed 4th and 8th grade tests. Elena Kagan, who was deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council at the time, reviewed the memo from the aide, Michael Cohen, which was intended for the president's eyes. "Do we really want to raise the prospect of a high school test?" Kagan wrote in an e-mail to Cohen on June 13, 1997. "I think with only six states in hand on our initial goal, people would ridicule such a call. ... In short, I am afraid this will make us look semi-oblivious." (more...)
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