and howme. and how that lives on inside you as your circumstances change and how you struggle with it. what parts of it you are content to live with. i want to that series of dramas to be played out. >> is a person that ran away from negro land myself. don't tell on me. as a person that ran away with struck me is you build this kind of segregated fortress that we hope translates you from the larger mainstream society. everybody desires to be better than somebody. and that seems to be the quests. whether it's the american quest, i don't know how other countries do it. >> that's how you get to the top of the food chain. >> the possessions internal and external necessary to get that recognition. the perks, the respect, and for us there is this vast spectrum. you wanted to be treated nicely in a restaurant. new line sales woman. if she's white or black to be suitably differential which is not deeply attractive, but there you are. you keep going along a continuum. you want to be treated like a first-

parents howm student the students are progressing. low-level and poor quality assessments can distract from good instruction. that are assessments not providing useful information can't get in the way. the good news, which we call out over the weekend in the plan is that we have states all over the country that are moving toward higher-quality assessments. dozens have adopted that are assessments that better reflect our plan. it is clear from conversations with parents and educators, and from this report, that there are places where there is too much testing and too much that is low-quality and not helping to inform instruction. we lay out some principles we think should drive policy at all levels. assessments should be worth taking and high-quality. they should provide meaningful l indicators of the growth students are making over time. the assessment should be time-limited. thehink states should cap amount of instructional time spent on testing. many states are taking action in this way. workll talk about the happening in north caro