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Nov 19th, 2010
| 08:16 AM | Assessment & Accountability

Let’s get assessment policy right.  California has recently adopted new standards for what children should know and be able to do at every grade level.  To ensure that these new standards support improvement in the performance of schools and students, tie them to assessments that provide timely, accurate, and useful information for teachers and parents about whether and how students are progressing toward...

Nov 18th, 2010
| 03:46 PM |

On Monday, the California Supreme Court unanimously reversed state’s court of appeals ruling of Martinez v. Regents of University of California in favor of AB 540. AB 540 is a state law that allows for any student...

Nov 12th, 2010
| 03:17 PM |

There has been a lot of discussion in the L.A. Times and in the...