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The Assessment Range: Using Data To Meaningfully Affect Learning

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The Assessment Range: Using Data In The Classroom To Meaningfully Affect Learning. If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind. What Should Assessments “Do”? In short (depending on the assessment form, purpose, context, type, etc.),

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

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More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? And that’s the best they’re going to do.'”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.” This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” A sobering assessment and a warning.”