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Outrages   Search Outrages 9134 in the collection   Lakewoebeguaranteed . . .My recent research has uncovered two facts about the MCAS. . .that ought to reverberate across the nation. First, a jump in a school's average score from one year to the next is unlikely to continue and therefore probably does not signal real improvement. Second, the MCAS is actually designed to produce a certain range of scores--in effect, artifically limiting how well students can do. . . . This Commentary is based on "Lakewoebeguaranteed: Misuse of Test Results in Massachusetts," which appeared in Educational Policy Analysis Archives (http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n24) — Walt Haney Ensuring Failure Education Week July 10, 2002 http://edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=42haney.h21 INDEX OF OUTRAGES Pages: 366    [1] 2 3 4 5 6  Next >>    Last >>

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