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- 04-19-2011
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By Catherine Gewertz/Education Week
It’s a daunting job for two big groups of states to design multilayered assessment systems by 2014, and a panel of experts made it even more daunting last week, composing a long list of concerns about what it will take to make the venture a success. On its list, the panel included high-level, long-range items such as integrating the tests into systems of instruction, and nitty-gritty, immediate worries such as making sure that the tests’ computer demands don’t blow schools’ electrical circuits. The to-do list was sketched out during a six-hour hearing convened last week by the U.S. Department of Education. It was the first in a series aimed at informing the two state collaboratives as they design tests for the new common standards in mathematics and English/language arts that have been adopted by all but six states, using $360 million in federal Race to the Top money. Forty-five states are participating in the assessment consortia. (more...)
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