Three years ago, the first year 11th grade students in Washington were scheduled to take Smarter Balanced Assessments, “more than 42,000 11th-graders — roughly half of the state’s junior class…did not show up for their exams.” The students were not required to pass the tests in order to graduate from high school, but taking them would …
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It’s time to end exit testing requirements for Washington state high school students. Setting the bar high to ensure high school graduates achieve an adequate level of understanding in English, Math, and Biology is important. The Every Student Succeeds Act requires testing of high school students in these subjects, but requiring students to meet a cut score on …
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How did the Anacortes School District (ASD) decide to ditch their Holt Mathematics text book curricula for high school in the fall of 2014 and replace it with Mathematics Vision Project, a discovery style Integrated Math sequencing Open Educational Resource (OER) that consists of a collection of worksheets? The ASD mistakenly accepted the notion that Washington …
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