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Experts weigh in on 'Race to Top' testing rules
- 01-15-2010
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By Catherine Gewertz/Education Week
Experts enlisted to help the U.S. Department of Education shape its $350 million Race to the Top assessment competition urged the agency this week to make sure that states seeking the money share a clear vision of the testing systems they aim to design, are fully committed to the lengthy project, and carefully delineate responsibilities for getting the job done. But exactly how the Education Department would be able to discern all that from states’ applications for the money remained unclear. And dozens of other unanswered questions cropped up at hearings Jan. 13 and 14, organized by the department to seek expert advice on how states applying for the funds should organize themselves and how states’ procurement rules could affect the process. (more...)
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