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View ArticleHelping School Boards Understand and Use Data
Despite the numerous federal and state policies that have established data-based decision making as the norm for K-12 education in recent years, many school board members aren’t sure exactly what the...
View ArticleIs NCLB hurting top students?
The following post was originally posted on the Center for Publc Education’s blog The Edifier. It’s déjà vu all over again. Back in 2008 the Fordham Institute claimed in this report that our nation’s...
View ArticleCommon Core tests and school board success stories in the March issue of ASBJ
The Common Core State Standards are coming, and they will have a huge impact on how teachers are expected to teach, students are taught to think, and how both students and teachers are evaluated. In...
View ArticleSchool boards concerned about federal proposal to expand school data collection
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is opposing a burdensome and confusing expansion of data collected on students and school districts proposed by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office...
View ArticleTeacher evaluation is broader than test scores, NSBA’s Center for Public...
K-12 teacher evaluation systems today are more refined and useful for improving teachers’ skills and connecting teachers to student achievement than past models, a new national report that examines...
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