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Tung, Rosann; Ouimette, Monique; Rugen, Leah – Center for Collaborative Education, 2006
New research conducted by Boston's Center for Collaborative Education documents significant achievement by students who attend the city's Pilot Schools. Pilot School students are performing better than the district averages across every indicator of student engagement and performance, including the statewide standardized assessment (MCAS). In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Pilot Projects, Standardized Tests, Performance Based Assessment
Cronin, John; Dahlin, Michael; Adkins, Deborah; Kingsbury, G. Gage – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2007
At the heart of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the call for all students to be "proficient" in reading and mathematics by 2014. Yet the law expects each state to define proficiency as it sees fit and design its own tests. This study investigated three research questions related to this policy: (1) How consistent are various…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Mathematics Tests, Test Validity, Reading Tests
Halsey, Karen; Judkins, Michelle; Atkinson, Mary; Rudd, Peter – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
This summary outlines the key findings from a national evaluation of the first-year trials of the New Relationship with Schools (NRwS) carried out by a team at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). The trials took place in the period September 2004 to July 2005 and involved 93 schools in eight local educational authorities…
Descriptors: Inspection, Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Profiles
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