senator lieberman mentioned proficiency in the just reminded me of this when i first got into the senate, 2009, i had a roundtable of principals and one of the principals in minnesota and he said, we think of the nclb test as autopsies. and i knew exactly what he meant because what he was saying is the students take the test in late april, if they re lucky, they get them back in late june. the teachers can t use the results to inform their instruction. so i saw that minnesota, in addition to the nclb test, a lot of schools, a majority of schools, were taking a computer adaptive test. a computer test so you get the results right away and adaptive so that you can measure outside of grade level. and this is brings me to the issue of proficiency which senator cited versus growth. and i would like your views on