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Illinois school district purchases laptops to enhance Common Core State Standards

  The Common Core State Standards mandates that in order to be prepared for college or the workforce, students must be able to "use technology and digital media strategically and capably." In order to comply with this new national curriculum, many schools across the country are searching for ways to integrate technology into their classrooms. […]

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Utah school sees best ITBS results in its history

  Officials from Challenger School, a private institution in Utah, recently announced that this year, its students received the highest scores on their Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) in the school’s history. Their 2011 test results indicated that the school’s kindergarten students scored in the 96th percentile, meaning that they had better results than 96 percent […]

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Arkansas teachers prepare for integration of Common Core State Standards

In July 2010, the Arkansas Board of Education announced that its schools plan to adopt the Common Core State Standards, the Crawford County Press Argus-Courier reports. Now, in order to prepare for this change, teachers in Crawford County are working hard this summer. These teachers are meeting with individuals who have already studied the Common […]

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New York schools make history with use of new standardized test scoring system

  Standardized tests like the SAT-10 are typically calculated electronically, but the corrections are not done at the testing site. Several school districts in the state of New York recently made history for using the first ever electronic scoring system that was on-site. The Educational Assessment Scoring Environment (EASE) was created by the Education Division […]

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Some private schools are opting to give their students the Stanford Achievement Test

  It’s become a requirement for public schools to assess how well their students perform when compared to the rest of the country. Through the No Child Left Behind Act, schools must choose a form of standardized testing to determine exactly where their students measure up. However, although some private schools in Pennsylvania are opting […]

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New York standardized tests see flaws

  Some schools across the country are using standardized test scores in order to get recognition from the government. However, a number of analysts suggests that standardized tests had become too predictable for some, which is why New York state decided to make math and English tests more difficult. Now that proficiency has dropped, The […]

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