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Ever since the No Child Left Behind legislation passed, New Hampshire educators have been thinking about tests.

A few years from now, No Child Left Behind, or NCLB, will require students to take a test every year from 3rd through 8th grade in math and language arts.

Those test results will determine whether a school is doing fine, or must offer additional tutoring to students, reorganize its curriculum, or in a worst-case scenario fire all of its teachers.

With such high stakes, a significant issue has emerged- whether the test should measure how much students know at a certain point, or how much they?ve learned since the beginning of the year. In the third part of our series on No Child Left Behind, NHPR?s Dan Gorenstein reports on a new wrinkle in the debate over testing.