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	<title>News &#38; Commentary &#187; National Governors Association</title>
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		<title>Experts Lay Out Vision for Future Assessments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Week&#8217;s site has another piece on the future of education, this one on assessements:

Led by Stanford University professor Linda Darling-Hammond, a panel of experts outlined a comprehensive system that includes summative and formative tests of higher-order thinking skills, reflecting a marketplace that they say places increasing value on such skills.
They urged a move away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common-Standards &#8211; Incontrovertible Logic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Week published a couple different takes on the standards debate. Here is the incontrovertible logic:

U.S. Common-Standards Push Bares Unsettled Issues
Familiar Themes Emerge in Resurgent Debate
By Sean Cavanagh
It is one of the simplest ideas in American education&#8211;and one of the most confounding: Elected officials and educators have been talking about establishing national, or common, academic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Core Standards in the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fordham Institute&#8217;s report, Stars by Which to Navigate: Scanning National and International Standards in 2009, has brought The Common Core State Standards Initiative back into the news.

Proposed National Academic Standards Sidestep Debate
By Nick Anderson
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it is known, is an attempt to fashion de facto national standards for math [...]]]></description>
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