History of IDEA
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
The ed report that all 'reformers' should read
- 03-08-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Here are two take-away messages for school reformers around the country that are embedded in an important new report about how the D.C. public school system is faring under the 2007 law that gave the mayor control. * The standardized test scores that have been trumpeted to show improvement in the schools cannot legitimately be used to show progress in student learning. This is true, the report says, not only for D.C. schools but for any and all other school systems that use standardized tests as a measure of achievement. *The accountability mavens who have pushed standardized-test-based accountability systems on schools, students and teachers forgot something important: to create and implement a system to hold themselves accountable. (more...)
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