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Education 'Insiders' Extremely Skeptical Of Positive Education Reform Post-Election

Posted 11.14.2012 | Home

Read More: Washington Charter Schools, Education in Politics, Education Insider Survey, Whiteboard Advisors, Education Insiders, Education Budget Cuts, National Education Association, Smarter Balanced, Teachers Unions, Teacher Evaluation Reform, Education in the Election, Common Core, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, Charter Schools, Georgia Charter Schools, Georgia Charter School Decision, Common Core Tests, Sequestration, Home News

Education consulting group Whiteboard Advisors recently conducted surveys of 50-75 anonymous political and policy “insiders” prior to and in the a...

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Are New Online Standardized Tests Revolutionary?

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.10.2012 | Home

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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. New high-tech standardized tests are coming soon to schools across the ...

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Policy 'Insiders' Overwhelmingly Agree: Jeb Bush Speech Best On Education

Posted 09.28.2012 | Home

Whiteboard Advisors, a consulting firm that specializes in school policy, recently conducted one of its monthly surveys of 50 to 75 anonymous politica...

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Report Highlights States' Efforts To Ensure College- And Career-Readiness

Posted 09.13.2012 | Home

Read More: School Accountability Systems, Common Core State Standards, Closing the Expectations Gap Report, Common Core State Standards Initiative, Video, College Preparedness, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, Partnership-for-Assessment-of-Readiness-for-College-and-Careers, Achieve Survey, Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, High School College Preparedness, Closing the Gap, Graduation Requirements, High School Graduation Requirements, College and Career Readiness, Home News

For its seventh annual “Closing the Expectations Gap” report, Achieve surveyed all 50 states and the District of Columbia about their college- and...

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Utah Withdraws From Consortium Developing Common Core Tests

Posted 08.07.2012 | Home

Read More: Common Core State Standards, Utah State School Board, Utah Common Core, Common Core, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, Race to the Top, Common Core Tests, Utah Schools, Video, Home News

The Utah state school board on Friday voted 12-3 to withdraw from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium -- one of two state-based consortia worki...

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New Online Tests Hold Promise, Perils

| Sarah Garland | Posted 08.26.2012 | Home

Read More: School Technology, Video, Online Exams, Online Standardized Tests, Townsend Elementary School, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, Standardized Tests, Technology in Schools, Standardized Testing, Wyoming Schools, Delaware Schools, Online Tests, Pearson Educational Management, Online Testing, Pearson, Home News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. TOWNSEND, Del. -- On a recent afternoon at Townsend Elementary School here, a little boy s...

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