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Quality Counts 2001: A Better Balance
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- Assessment New Setback for PARCC as Another State Abandons TestNew Mexico’s defection from the PARCC test set off another round of speculation that the exam will become extinct, but PARCC’s overseers have other plans.
Assessment Reported Essay Is It Time to Kill Annual Testing?A world without annual testing may be closer than you think, but it would come with some serious tradeoffs. Stephen Sawchuk considers the alternatives.Assessment New Mexico Governor Signs Order to Dump PARCC TestsOn her third day in office, Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham fulfills a campaign promise by signing an executive order to dump the PARCC test.
Assessment For Black Students, Having a Black Teacher Can Be a Benefit, Study FindsResearch shows improvement for black and low-performing students in reading and math when matched with a teacher of color.Assessment Report Roundup Summer SchoolMany districts target summer school only for students at risk of repeating a grade, but a new Rand Corp. evaluation suggests students who consistently attend high-quality summer programs outperform peers in math, English, and social-emotional skills.Assessment Report Roundup Physical EducationLess than 3 percent of students who started 9th grade in 2009 had dropped out by 2012, new data from the National Center for Education Statistics show, but more than 11 percent had switched schools.Assessment Report Roundup Foster Students in SchoolsSchools may be the only lifeline for many teenagers leaving foster care before graduating from high school.Assessment Report Roundup Achievement and RaceIf a black student has just one or two black teachers in elementary school, he or she is significantly more likely to enroll in college, concludes a new Johns Hopkins University study.Assessment Is 'Proficient' Insufficient? A New Wrinkle in the Debate Over NAEP Achievement LevelsA modification to the Nation's Report Card achievement level descriptions of "basic," "proficient," and "advanced" performance is the latest in a nearly 30-year battle over where to set the bar for student performance.Assessment Report Roundup Selective SchoolsSelective schools with a higher average achievement level may exert a negative influence on students' long-term success, finds a new longitudinal study of data from Project TALENT.Assessment Opinion Building Writing Skills, Fostering Agency: The National Writing Project's Student Using Sources ToolTeachers helped the National Writing Project develop and test a peer-review tool designed to help students improve their evidence-based arguments in writing.Assessment Opinion What Is a Good School?The quality of a school is evident in student work and how it is assessed, says Justin Wells of Envision Learning Partners.Assessment News in Brief Four More States Express Interest in ESSA Innovative Assessment PilotFour states say they will apply for the second round of the Every Student Succeeds Act's Innovative Assessment pilot: Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, and South Carolina.Assessment Report Roundup Science EducationSchool systems across the country should do more to ensure that current and former English-language learners have access to STEM education, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds.Assessment Math Scores Slide to a 20-Year Low on ACTThe continuing decline in math achievement comes even as fewer students are taking the college-readiness exam.
