Tennessee has more ‘Write Stuff’ than Kentucky

There are huge amounts of time and effort placed on writing in our CATS public school assessment program. CATS has all year long writing portfolios, on-demand writing tests, open-response written answers in all the academic CATS tests, practicing for same, and so forth. Our kids never get a break from it.

Anyway, after all this writing, you might think our kids would ‘cream’ students in a state like Tennessee that only takes an on-demand writing sample once at each school level and has no open-response questions at all in its academic tests.

Well, guess again, and check this out: