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In his posting "The Daunting Challenge of Teacher Evaluation" David Plank rightly suggests that the challenge of teacher evaluation is indeed daunting and an important topic in many public and private conversations related to educational reform. One of the most discussed and debated arguments related to this conversation...
In his second public forum on the state’s budget crisis Governor Brown focused on California’s education system. The clear message, after three years of cuts that have fallen disproportionately on schools, is that things will get worse—probably a lot worse—before they get better. The...
David Plank's comments about the new generation of assessments and the increased interest in more "authentic assessment" on the part of the feds are encouraging. I would just remind us that in the early 1990s California was at the cutting edge of this kind of assessment with the CLAS. The CLAS was designed to test "higher order...
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