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		<title>Predictable tech glitches: More state tests disrupted. Ready, fire, aim!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First Indiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Minnesota. Now Virginia! As reported by Education Week, &#8220;State Online Testing Problems Continue to Raise Concerns.&#8221; The Washington Post reports that Fairfax County Schools (Virginia) acknowledged “significant problems” administering the state standards of learning tests. In one of the nation&#8217;s largest school districts, thousands of the 41,975 tests administered on Thursday alone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Common Core: What they are and what they are not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of educational standards that ensure students, regardless of what zip code they live in, have the skills and knowledge they need to be college- and career-ready. The CCSS have both supporters and detractors. Ironically, the criticisms of the Standards relate to what they are not as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let us do our work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking at an event sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) incoming Council President, Kentucky Education Commissioner, Terry Holiday, had some choice words for school reformers and Common Core detractors. Holiday on Teacher Evaluation: States moved too fast adopting new teacher evaluation systems. Too many states moved to make student test scores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ominous Sign for Standardized Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But the words of a former principal and a retired teacher may quickly become drowned out by a far louder angry voice—the parents.]]></description>
		<link>http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference1/2013/05/an-ominous-sign-for-standardized-testing/</link>
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		<title>Test Numbers that Don’t Add Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart Singer, The Master Teacher The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system has a big problem. Any time there is a headline in the Washington Post that reads: “Thousands Fail High School Math Exams in Montgomery” there is something very wrong. Here are the numbers in question according to the article: “Recently released figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“We are on schedule and ready to go.” – Joe Willhoft, SBAC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SBAC consortium has posted minimum computing requirements and a bandwidth calculator that schools can use to measure capacity. It has also said that it would supply paper-and-pencil versions of the assessments for the first three years. Willhoft predicted that some schools in California may decide to do both in the transition, trying computer-based tests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference1/2013/05/we-are-on-schedule-and-ready-to-go-joe-willhoft-sbac/</link>
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		<title>States’ Online Testing Problems Raise Common-Core (Implementation) Concerns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technical glitches during recent online assessments in a number of states are prompting worries about schools&#8217; ability to administer common-core testing in 2014-15. Mel Riddile&#8216;s insight: While online testing is the way to go, I have been warning everyone that it takes a few years to work out the glitches when transitioning from paper tests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference1/2013/05/states-online-testing-problems-raise-common-core-implementation-concerns/</link>
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		<title>Desperately in Need of Assistance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Without an equal commitment to excellence by the three groups directly involved—administrators, teachers and students—standardized testing at the high school level can be a sham.]]></description>
		<link>http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference1/2013/05/desperately-in-need-of-assistance/</link>
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		<title>High Stakes Tests Create Desperate Teachers and Principals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“It’s a sign of a fundamental imbalance: The tests matter deeply for teachers and principals, whose jobs and salaries depend on improving scores. But the lengthy exams don’t matter much to students.” – Washington Post A colleague sent me a link to an article about a high school principal, who had rescinded a policy that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference1/2013/04/high-stakes-tests-create-desperate-teachers-and-administrators/</link>
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		<title>Literacy: Every Student, Every Class, Every Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jackson Central-Merry (JCM) Academy for Medical Technology, located in Jackson, TN, is an inner city, high-poverty (95%), and high-minority (93%) high school of approximately 800 students. Since being restructured four years ago, principal Eric Jones and the staff of JCM have created a safe, orderly, and inviting school environment that supports learning, encourages regular attendance, [...]]]></description>
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