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School Choice

Good Judgment Comes from Experience

Posted on June 26, 2014 by uva72

And … experience comes from bad judgment. The nation’s K-12 educational enterprise – including the Commonwealth of Virginia’s – is […]

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Common Core State Standards

Do educators wave their arms to make their case for educational reform grow?

Posted on September 7, 2013 by uva72

Questioning the Case for Nationalized Education Reform When my daughter was 5-years old, she asked, “How do the trees flap […]

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Longitudinal Data System

Common Core’s Data Mining Trojan Horse

Posted on August 11, 2013 by uva72

Summary of American Thinker article by Carole Hornsby Haynes, August 2, 2013 Student data mining is merely the Trojan horse […]

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Common Core State Standards

California Committed to Move Forward with Common Core Tests As Planned

Posted on August 4, 2013 by uva72

Last week, Education Week reported that nearly all of the key education officials in 40 states responding to a survey […]

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Common Core State Standards

An Early Look at Smarter Balanced Assessments

Posted on August 4, 2013 by uva72

Sample tests aligned to the California Common Core State Standards can be viewed for grades 3-8 and 11 at http://www.smarterbalanced.org/pilot-test/.  […]

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Common Core State Standards

ANOTHER STATE DROPS OUT OF PARCC

Posted on July 31, 2013 by uva72

Is the summer of 2013 for Common Core what the summer of 2010 was for the Affordable Care Act? As […]

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Education Tax Credits

School Choice is Important in the Black Community

Posted on July 30, 2013 by uva72

In March 2013, the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) commissioned a survey of Black voters in four Southern states […]

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Common Core State Standards

Posturing vs. Performing – Blame the Test

Posted on July 26, 2013 by uva72

Lawrence Hardy’s article “An Epidemic of Cheating,” which appeared in the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA’s) magazine,  takes a look […]

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Common Core State Standards

Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: State Education Agencies’ Views on the Federal Role

Posted on July 25, 2013 by uva72

This report, based on a winter/spring 2013 survey of 40 Common Core State Standards-adopting states, examines state education agency (SEA) […]

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Longitudinal Data System

Virginia LDS Insights Conference 2013

Posted on May 22, 2013 by uva72

The Virginia Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) sponsored the Virginia Longitudinal Data Systems (VLDS) Insight conference, at George Mason University, […]

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  • California Committed to Move Forward with Common Core Tests As Planned
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