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		<description>Education Week: News and Information About Issues in Education for Educators</description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Assessment, Accountability, Achievement]]></title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2020 04:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Education Week: Assessment, Accountability, Achievement]]></title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Throwback Thursday: Achievement, Assessment, and Accountability]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/leadership_360/2014/08/throwback_thursday_achievement_assessment_and_accountability.html</guid>
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				<description><![CDATA[If we continue to focus on student growth and improvement as learners, keep track of that progress, and watch its impact on standard test results, will we be able to know if what we are doing is helping students develop as learners and thinkers.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[What to Do About Cheating on Assessments in Virtual Learning?]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2020/08/what_to_do_about_cheating_on_assessments_in_virtual_learning.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2020/08/what_to_do_about_cheating_on_assessments_in_virtual_learning.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[Lots of challenges have arisen in remote teaching and learning during COVID-19, and cheating on tests has been one of them. Guest blogger Tom Guskey explains how to prevent that from happening.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Topics]]></title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Accountability and Assessment Systems]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/international_perspectives/2013/10/accountability_and_assessment_systems.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/international_perspectives/2013/10/accountability_and_assessment_systems.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[Helen Janc Malone introduces this week's blog theme, "accountability and assessment systems." She writes that at the heart of the current accountability debate is a fundamental question, What is the purpose of all the collected assessment data? Are they an end game or a starting point to educational]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[About the State Highlights Reports]]></title>
				<guid>https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/01/12/16shr.h31.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/01/12/16shr.h31.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[The 16th annual edition of Education Week’s Quality Counts continues the report's tradition of tracking key education indicators and grading the states on their policy efforts and outcomes. This year’s special theme—American schooling from an international perspective—examines the nation’s]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Is It Time for the American Approach to Assessment to Change?]]></title>
				<guid>https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/09/05/is-it-time-for-the-american-approach.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/09/05/is-it-time-for-the-american-approach.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. tests its students more than most nations, but is the deluge of data providing the information schools need?]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Approval Deferred on ACT for Accountability in Wyo., Wis.]]></title>
				<guid>https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/02/08/approval-deferred-on-act-for-accountability-in.html</guid>
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				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Education Department says the states need more evidence to use the popular admissions test to measure high school achievement.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2020 14:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Data: Student Achievement in the Era of Accountability - Education Week]]></title>
				<guid>https://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2016/data-student-achievement-in-the-era-of.html</guid>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Education Week Research Center looks at student scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress from 2003 to 2015, a period overlapping with the No Child Left Behind Act.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[From Schooling to Learning in India: How Can We Take Everyone Along?]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/international_perspectives/2013/10/from_schooling_to_learning_in_india_how_can_we_take_everyone_along.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/international_perspectives/2013/10/from_schooling_to_learning_in_india_how_can_we_take_everyone_along.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[Rukmini Banerji and Madhav Chavan offer a compelling case for the use of literacy and numeracy assessments as tools to understand progress and gaps in student learning in India.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Wasting the Lessons of Assessment History]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/assessing_the_assessments/2014/04/wasting_the_lessons_of_assessment_history.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/assessing_the_assessments/2014/04/wasting_the_lessons_of_assessment_history.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[Mort Sherman of American Association of School Administrators responds to Henry Braun and suggests life beyond the efficiently scored tests that we are so dependent on. Particularly, he calls for a closer look at students' dispositions such as persistence, self regulation, and self evaluation.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[In Some States, ESSA Goals for English-Learners Are 'Purely Symbolic,' Report Finds]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2020/02/essa_english-learner_goals_fall_short.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2020/02/essa_english-learner_goals_fall_short.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[More than four years after the passage of ESSA, English-language-learner education policies across the country remain "disjointed and inaccessible," a new report concludes.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Duct Tape Won't Fix Formative Assessments]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/assessing_the_assessments/2014/04/duct_tape_wont_fix_formative_assessments.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/assessing_the_assessments/2014/04/duct_tape_wont_fix_formative_assessments.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[Steven Ladd of Elk Grove Schools, California responds to Neal Kingston and concludes: focus on test scores detracts attention from the serious underrepresentation of low-income populations in STEM and a growing gap in income and access.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Panel Finds Few Learning Benefits in High-Stakes Exams]]></title>
				<guid>https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/06/08/33academy-2.h30.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/06/08/33academy-2.h30.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[A 10-year study by a blue-ribbon panel of scientists concludes that high-stakes testing and other accountability measures have largely failed to translate to real improvements in student achievement.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Panel Finds Few Learning Gains From Testing Movement]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[A 10-year study by a blue-ribbon panel of scientists concludes that high-stakes testing and other accountability measures have largely failed to translate to real improvements in student achievement.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Chiefs' Group Wants Congress To Know Value of State Role in Federal Programs]]></title>
				<guid>https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1999/03/24/28ccso.h18.html</guid>
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				<description><![CDATA[State education leaders went to Capitol Hill last week to urge Congress to keep their agencies in the federal budget loop.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Honestly Prioritizing Assessment Design for Instruction]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/assessing_the_assessments/2014/04/prioritizing_assessment_design_for_instruction.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/assessing_the_assessments/2014/04/prioritizing_assessment_design_for_instruction.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[Neal Kingston of University of Kansas warns: No one test can serve multiple purposes equally well. We need to choose the most important goal for a testing program and focus on achieving it.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[Ed. Dept., Virginia Stumble Over Waiver]]></title>
				<guid>https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/09/12/03amo.h32.html</guid>
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				<description><![CDATA[Flawed achievement-gap targets in the state's NCLB flexibility waiver force a do-over and highlight complexities.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<title><![CDATA[California Moves Toward New Test-Score Reporting]]></title>
				<guid>https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/12/california_moves_toward_new_te.html</guid>
				<link><![CDATA[https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/12/california_moves_toward_new_te.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drss&utm_term=Assessment+Accountability+Achievement]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[Federal law requires states to report student test scores in achievement levels, but leaders in the Golden State want to take a different approach.]]></description>
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