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Jeffery, Jill V. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
"Voice" is widely considered to be a feature of effective writing. It's no surprise, then, that voice criteria frequently appear on rubrics used to score student essays in large-scale writing assessments. However, composition theorists hold vastly different views regarding voice and how it should be applied in the evaluation of student writing, if…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Evaluators, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests
Baker, Bruce – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
The new "Weighted Student Formula Yearbook 2009" from the Reason Foundation provides a simple framework for touting the successes of states and urban school districts that grant greater fiscal autonomy to schools. The report defines the Weighted Student Formula (WSF) reform extremely broadly, presenting a variety of reforms under the WSF umbrella.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Urban Schools, Research Reports, Change Strategies