Deborah Meier has spent 50 years working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, and advocate, and received a MacArthur “genius” Award for her work in East Harlem, New York City. Matthew Knoester is an associate professor of educational studies at Ripon College and author of Democratic Education in Practice: Inside the Mission Hill School.

“Meier and Knoester have succeeded in pushing the conversation of testing toward a conversation about what kind of assessments truly expand our knowledge of what students are learning in schools… Beyond Testing will provide ample information that can be used to make suggestions to school administrators and other local decision makers for broadening the types of measures teachers can use to assess student learning.”―Mid-Western Educational Researcher