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EDSOURCE
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California's Smarter Balanced test results: Use with caution |
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When the results of the third year of the Common-Core-aligned Smarter Balanced tests are released in California, as they are expected to be tomorrow, they will almost certainly receive a great deal of attention, in the media and elsewhere. There will be an outpouring of analysis, and another round of back slapping or hand wringing, depending on what the scores show. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/californias-smarter-balanced-test-results-use-with-caution/587849 |
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Less than half of all students fully college-ready on revised SAT test |
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The results for the newly revised SAT exam show that less than half of all test takers were fully college-ready and that ethnic and racial disparities persist in California and the rest of the nation. This first round of student scores after the much-discussed overhaul were released Tuesday without comparisons to past versions of the influential college entrance exam. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/results-of-revised-sat-are-released-racial-differences-in-scores-continue/587857 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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State readies bond money for school construction |
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The state Office of Administrative Law has approved regulations governing new accountability measures included in the 2017-18 budget on the use of bond money for school construction. The rules, which came into force last week, require independent auditors review spending from the $9 billion school bond approved by voters last November. Gov. Jerry Brown, who did not support the borrowing and has long-sought a restructuring of how school construction is funded, demanded as part of the budget negotiations that the auditing responsibility be shifted from the state to local, independent examiners. |
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/facilities/state-readies-bond-money-for-school-construction |
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Concerns over standardized tests halt progress of civics ed. |
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Despite a national push to resuscitate civics education in the classroom, bills that would have required students to pass a civics test to graduate failed in 18 states between 2015 and 2017, according to a new report. At the same time, eight states did adopt such a requirement in the last two years, according to analysis from the Colorado-based Education Commission of the States and the Joe Foss Institute, a civics-focused nonprofit based in Arizona, found that. An additional nine states require students to take the exam, but don’t require a passing grade to graduate. |
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/curriculum-instruction/concerns-over-standardized-tests-halt-progress-of-civics-ed |
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KPCC
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The birds and the bees: LAUSD sex ed might be going through some changes |
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We can probably all remember the time when learned about the P word: puberty.
If your main source of information for this was in a class at school, it was probably delivered via a squirm-inducing video. "You're right, in the past, that was what was done," said Timothy Kordic, who is in charge of sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention education for LAUSD.
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http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/09/25/59225/the-birds-and-the-bees-lausd-sex-ed-might-be-going/ |
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Preschool expulsion: the surprising problem this bill aims to prevent |
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Blanca Rubio often talks to her children about what she has going on at work. Since she's a legislator, a member of the California Assembly representing the 48th district, this means talking to her 9- and 10-year-old about the laws she's writing.
"I told them that one of the bills I was working on was a bill to stop 3- and 4-years-olds from being expelled," said Rubio, "And the first reaction was like, 'Mom! They're three and four! Why would anyone expel 3- and 4-year-olds? They don't know any better.'
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https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/09/25/75920/preschool-expulsion-the-surprising-problem-this-bi/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Ocean View chief named ‘Superintendent to Watch’ by school communications association |
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The superintendent of the Ocean View School District has been named a Superintendent to Watch for 2017-18 by the National School Public Relations Association. Dr. Carol Hansen, who joined the district a little more than two years ago, is one of 21 school chiefs from across the country to earn the designation from NSPRA, a nationwide association of school communicators. |
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/ocean-view-chief-named-superintendent-to-watch-by-school-communications-association/ |
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