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Lyles-Crouch Gets High Marks on State Report Card

Students and teachers at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy have something to celebrate. For this public school in Alexandria, Virginia—also a...
October 14, 2016 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Dear Chiefs: This Is Your Chance to Close the Reading Achievement Gap

Assuming all goes as planned, we should have a new federal education law by the end of the year....
December 1, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Valid, Reliable, and Unfair

As schools across the country anxiously await the results of their new Common Core–aligned assessments, there’s one thing I...
August 4, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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No Progress on Accountability, No Hope for Equity

I try not to give in to despair, but in reading recent recommendations for the reauthorization of ESEA, I...
April 7, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Raising Readers—Not Test Takers

In recent months, Teach Plus had over 1,000 teachers review sample items from PARCC, one of the two testing...
March 18, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Smarter Balanced Confuses Fairness and Validity

Over the past two weeks, we’ve looked the ETS guidelines for fair assessments that PARCC adopted, as well as...
October 15, 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation
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PARCC Demonstrates the Benefits of Broad Knowledge

Last week I explored the “ETS Guidelines for Fairness Review of Assessments.” These guidelines were adopted by PARCC, so...
October 8, 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Reading Test Developers Call Knowledge a Source of Bias

You might expect to see a headline like this in the Onion, but you won’t. The Onion can’t run...
October 1, 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation