How sad that a confluence of limited funding, political pressures, and its own history of empire - building has led the National Assessment Governing Board to propose an increase in testing combined with a reduction in the kinds of items and
tasks that might
actually tell us something worthwhile about student learning («Board Ponders New Format To Make NAEP More Cost - Effective,
Useful,» Jan. 24, 1996).
On a tablet screen there's
actually room to make the bottom bar
useful, so they added notifications and a small
task bar to it.