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New Common Core tests to shelve "modified achievement standards"

  • 09-03-2010
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Blog by Christina Samuels/Education Week

I've been pecking away at an article about the push toward common academic standards and students with disabilities for a little while now, but this tidbit is too interesting to hold on to: Today, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the winners of a competition to design tests that will accompany these state standards. In his remarks, he made several direct references to what these new tests may mean for students with learning differences: (more…)

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