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Performance Assessment in an Era of Standards-Based Educational Accountability

State Accountability
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Brian Stecher
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A number of factors account for the failure of performance assessment to capture a large role in achievement testing in the U.S., and this history can inform educators and education policymakers looking for better ways to test students and schools in an era of standards-based accountability.  ...

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Deeper Learning: A Primer For State Legislators

State Examples
Education Commission of the States (ECS)
Stephanie Aragon
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This primer is created for state policymakers seeking to modify instruction and assessment policies to better engage today’s students. The primer defines deeper learning, explains how it overlaps with other active learning strategies and describes how it can be, and is being, accomplished at the...

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Student-Centered Schools: Policy Supports for Closing the Opportunity Gap

Equity Issues
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Diane Friedlaender
Linda Darling-Hammond
Jon Snyder
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This policy brief describes how four student-centered high schools support student success. In addition, it recommends policy strategies that could sustain schools like these on a much broader scale, so that they become the norm rather than the exception.  The four high schools featured in this...

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