Entries for the 'Standards & Assessment' Category

Leaders of the Fall River district and B.M.C. Durfee High School analyzed their data to develop actionable strategies to boost student achievement, le...

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President and Founder of The Efficacy Institute, Jeff Howard, is chairing a task force to address the "proficiency gap" in Massachusetts; yesterday th...

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The 2009 NAEP Reading results show little improvement; read a summary of the results from EdWeek (includes links to NAEP reports and findings). Click...

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America's educational advantage is quickly eroding, testified one of the world's foremost experts on comparing national school systems before a Senate...

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Mark Schneider writes for Education Week about the discrepancies between some states' reported proficiency rates and their scores as tested by the NAE...

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Future assessments, Stanley N. Rabinowitz writes, will include more flexibility, multiple measures of achievement, different roles for government, and...

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The National Assessment of Educational Progress released its trend analysis of the nation's largest cities; the District of Columbia, Boston and San D...

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Despite the movement for a shared national standards and assessment, experts believe the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) will still...

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Massachusetts educators are applauding a new reporting system for MCAS tests (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) that tracks student progr...

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Schools in Illinois are under investigation for "reclassifying" high school juniors, a practice which prevents low-performers from taking the state as...

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