Commentary: Think twice before accepting iffy data from RISE tests

Last month at the Utah Capitol, the Legislature’s Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee discussed the Utah’s end-of-year RISE testing debacle.As an elementary school teacher married to a fellow educator, I have spent countless hours (at school and at home) fuming over the problems associated with the RISE testing platform and its parent company, Questar Assessment.Like many educators throughout state, I cheered the news earlier this month that the $44 million dollar contract b