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- 03-07-2011
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Blog by Doug McRae/Thoughts on Public Education
On Wednesday, the California State Board of Education will hear presentations from representatives of two assessment consortia that have been awarded federal grants to develop “next generation” assessments to measure the Common Core content standards adopted by states last year. The assessments developed by these two consortia will be candidates to potentially replace California’s Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) statewide assessment system. The reason for the presentations, instigated by Board President Michael Kirst, is to provide information leading to a decision as to which consortium, if either, California will collaborate with to provide assessment system design and test development work leading to replacement tests for STAR. (more...)
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