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Fun Assessment for Silent Sustained Reading

Catlin Tucker

I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Click here to view the Google Document with the detailed explanation for this assignment. SSR Book Club Style Chat .

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Tennessee Gives Pearson ‘Emergency’ Test Scoring Contract, Seeks New Vendor

Marketplace K-12

million for scoring 2015-16 assessments in Tennessee after the state terminated a contract in April with Measurement Inc. The contract covers only scoring and reporting Part I for grades 3-8 and Part I and Part II for high school. Common Core Testing Market Dominated by Familiar Players. million tests.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report. High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Data unavailable for Oklahoma.

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OPINION: Fewer students have to take college remedial math, data show

The Hechinger Report

That decline, recently documented in a survey of math and statistics departments by the Conference Board for Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), is great news for students. Plus the decline in remedial enrollments appeared in 2015, not long after the Common Core State Standards were implemented. million to around 780,000.

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College Board Scrutinized for Security Breaches on SAT Test in Asia

Marketplace K-12

Reuters also cites a confidential PowerPoint presentation by the College Board that says the testing group had documented widespread security woes in June of 2013, after nixing an SAT exam slated to be given in South Korea. Nearly all of those excluded worked for test-prep companies, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz reported.

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Why We Need to Move Away from SMART Goals and Towards New Forms of Classroom Assessment

Edsurge

My district has taken on new initiatives the past few years (as all districts do) to solve the well-documented, disconnected nature between high school graduates and workplace preparedness. We have aligned English Language Arts curriculum to the North Dakota Common Core State Standards, and redesigned units to address possible gaps.

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An instructional development framework for developing 21st Century skills in the University

Connecting 2 the World

My colleague, Diane Crosley, an instructor in Natural Sciences at Spring Arbor University, and I gave a presentation at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning in Traverse City, MI last October (2015) entitled, "Bridging the skills gap: Preparing Higher Education students for the 21st century workplace."