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Should Oregon Schools Stop Standardized Tests This Year?

Should Oregon Schools Stop Standardized Tests This Year? With so little time in school buildings, districts are looking to opt out and scale back. But at what cost? By Julia Silverman 4/13/2021 at 5:38pm Schools around Oregon are grappling with standardized testing in a pandemic school year. Next week, thousands of middle and high schoolers around the Portland metro area will return to school buildings for the first time since March of 2020, after Gov. Kate Brown ordered that every public school district in the state needed to provide some face-to-face time with teachers before the end of the school year.  To celebrate, there will be……standardized tests? 

Education Organizations Release Policy Considerations to Inform Equitable Change for Assessment and Accountability Systems

Education Organizations Release Policy Considerations to Inform Equitable Change for Assessment and Accountability Systems Report from convenings of 100+ experts proposes federal, state actions to address immediate needs and long-term improvements News provided by Share this article PORTLAND, Ore. and WASHINGTON, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/  NWEA and Education Reform Now (ERN), in conjunction with multiple organizations representing state departments of education, school districts, policy and advocacy groups, and universities, today released recommendations and potential policy options for how to re-envision assessments and accountability measures this spring and beyond to better advance student success. The paper, Convening for a Common Cause: Reimagining Assessment and Accountability to Improve Student Learning, reflects a series of robust discussions among more than 100 experts from 60+ organizations that participated in several convenings throughout the fall of 20

Parents are holding kids back in school amid COVID-19: How to help them catch up

Parents are holding kids back in school amid COVID-19: How to help them catch up • 17 min read School children wearing facemasks walk outside an elementary school. Jane Minovskaya of Charlotte, North Carolina, cares for her two nephews Nathan, 7 and Dayan, 6, who attended Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The district, which is the 18th largest in the country, has been closed for in-person instruction since last March and had adopted a virtual model. They are extremely bored, Minovskaya told Good Morning America in early February. At some point they fall asleep . reach out for paper, crayons, look for the iPad, YouTube. They will look for anything to do instead of listening to what they need to be listening to.

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