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REA 850: Linking Assessment and Instruction
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Assessment in the News
Formal Assessments
Informal Assessments
Federal and National
Tell Congress to Keep NCLB "Accountability" Mandates Out of New Federal Education Law
National In New Poll Americans Say Students Over-Tested; Want Fewer Federal Mandates
Why Black Parents Should Opt Their Kids Out of High-Stakes Testing
Taking on the Testocracy
Arts Are One More Victim of Common Core Testing
Study of Brain Scans Shows Impact of Poverty on Academic Performance
News from Different States
*California* Some High Schools Experiment With Performance Assessments: Portfolios and Presentations
*Connecticut *State Replaces High School Smarter Balanced Test with SAT
Connecticut Teachers Call for Overhaul of State Testing
*Florida *New Ohio Test Vendor Promises to Avoid Computer Glitches it Encountered in Sunshine State Exams
Florida County School Board Reduces District-Mandated Testing By 50%
*Georgia *Students Will See Fewer State Exams This Year
*Indiana *Teachers tested by state requirements
*Missouri *Educators Fear That Scores From New Test Will be Misinterpreted
*Nebraska *Poverty is the Root of Educational Woe
*Nevada* Shifts Testing Contractors After Computerized Exam Foul-ups
*Ohio *State School Administrators Head Says "Testing in American Education is On Steroids"
*Oklahoma* Tulsa School Board Listens to Teachers and Parents in Rolling Back Testing Barrage
*Pennsylvania* Test Opt Outs Tripled in 2015
Pennsylvania New State Super Says Accountability Needs to Be More Holistic
**Tennessee* Local School Board Angered by Classroom Time Devoted to State Testing
Tennessee More State-Mandated Testing Problems
*Virginia* SOL Test Scores Don't Tell the Whole Academic Performance Story
*Washington* High-Stakes Testing Efforts Hampered by Opt-Out Movement
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