Opinion: Teacher Supports the Need for Annual Testing

Esther Cepeda recently returned to the classroom after several years away. She wrote an opinion piece on annual standardized testing that appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Aug. 27, 2016. Cepeda wrote that that she supports the need for annual testing and recent polling shows a strong majority of Americans feels the same way.…

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Education Next Releases Public Opinion Poll

Education Next released its annual state of education poll, and testing performed well (as it did in 2015). Parents continued to strongly support high-quality assessments that accurately measure their children’s learning. Other findings involving assessments included: nearly 80 percent of respondents favoring yearly assessments, 73 percent supporting assessments that are comparable among states and school…

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Six States Have Released Smarter Balanced Scores

Late August traditionally starts the beginning of the reporting of state test scores, and that trend has continued in 2016. With the release of California’s CAASSP scores Wednesday (Aug. 24), six states using Smarter Balanced assessments have released scores, with most showing solid growth in 2016 from 2015, the first year that the Smarter Balanced…

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