mr. boasberg? >> thank you. and -- [inaudible] i do think it's important that states and districts be very transparent about what is required. and we in our state have a committee that is doing just that, and that committee is making a series of recommendations to the legislature to reduce some of the state-minnesota kateed -- mandated testing that has nothing to do with no child left behind. we as a district also published exactly what we do and what we don't do. i do think there is also a balance that of exactly what the federal government says in terms of how much reporting, exactly how things are reported, i think as mr. lazar and ms. lee said, our teachers assess our kids in some way every day. that could be a little quiz that could be a check for understanding, that could be an exit ticket daily weekly, and boy, there's nothing that i would dread more than our teachers in some compliance exercise having to classify and record every single thing that could be somehow classified as an assessment or it's of s

mr. boasberg, welcome. >> thank you for this opportunity with you. my name is a nine superintendents of the fast-growing school districts of any city in this country, the wonderfully diverse denver public schools. we have seen remarkable progress in the last decade under reform started by my predecessor senator bennet, at a time when the other job which was truly complex and challenging public policy issues to grapple with it in that time we've increased our number of graduates by over 1000 students a year, increased our on-time graduation rate for african-american latino students by over 60%. we decrease our dropout rates by over 60%, and we have gone from the school district with her students having the lowest rate of year on your student progress of any major district in the state to being at the district for three in row were our students on a student by student basis are demonstrating the highest rate of yearly academic progress. as the result are enrolled is booming as her families come back to an state under schools and the last seven years al

mr. boasberg, i want you to run with it.anyone else run with what i just said. >> great, thank you senator. you but it, very very well how important it is to care about growth for all kids and not just kid on a cusp of a particular line. >> the thing i like about the law was called no child left behind. that is the thing i like the most about. >> and i i would also i think one of the things we're very much looking for is a new generation of assessments which will be introduced this thing, is much more sophisticated set of assessment. it is much more around complex thinking problem-solving. not about rote memmization. if you're teaching rote memmization. your kids will not do well. about kind of skills we need to care about for universities and our economy. at the same time, we tly to create too much this one vessel of this once a year assessment to hold everything. i think you want to a good assessment to measure progress and literacy and math and sophistication and challenge we'll see in assessments introduce this year and