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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; accountability</title>
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		<title>Give Me Harvard or Give Me Death</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/10/give-me-harvard-or-give-me-death/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/10/give-me-harvard-or-give-me-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-stakes testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parental anxiety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Parental anxiety is ruining playtime, notes the Washington Post&#8217;s Valerie Strauss.  It&#8217;s not news that lots of preschool parents have become &#8220;super-anxious trying to give their kids a leg up on kindergarten,&#8221; Strauss writes at The Answer Sheet.  &#8220;But I didn&#8217;t realize just how nutty things had become until I talked to several dozen preschool program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Schools Be Sued for Failure to Educate?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/09/can-schools-be-sued-for-failure-to-educate/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/09/can-schools-be-sued-for-failure-to-educate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educational malpractice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ACLU is suing Florida&#8217;s governor, Board of Ed and other officials for &#8220;failing to ensure that students in Palm Beach County receive a high quality education.&#8221;   The state&#8217;s constitution requires Florida to provide a uniform, efficient, safe, secure and high quality education.  “Palm Beach County is clearly not upholding its responsibility to provide a quality [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Caught California Being Good!</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/05/i-caught-california-being-good/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/05/i-caught-california-being-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter caps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test scores]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the oldest trick in the elementary school classroom management book:  using positive reinforcement to get children to behave in the hope of earning a reward or recognition.  When it&#8217;s time to clean up before lunch the teacher says, &#8220;Let&#8217;s see who&#8217;s ready to line up first.  I&#8217;m looking to see who has their desk cleaned [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Am Shocked, SHOCKED, To Find Gambling Going On Here</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/29/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-find-gambling-going-on-here/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/29/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-find-gambling-going-on-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized tests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=3669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the National Center for Education Statistics have found evidence that &#8220;a majority of states may have lowered student-proficiency standards on state tests in recent years.&#8221;
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Reverse Engineering Academic Upbringing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/19/reverse-engineering-academic-upbringing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/19/reverse-engineering-academic-upbringing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[math]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remediation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNLV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=3593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is launching an ambitious research project to figure out why so many of its freshmen need remediation in reading and math.  Every incoming student will be evaluated &#8220;to reverse-engineer his academic upbringing,&#8221; UNLV president Neal Smatresk tells the Las Vegas Sun.  Since eighty percent of UNLV&#8217;s undergrads come from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do NAEP Scores Have Legs at the Polls?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/15/do-naep-scores-have-legs-at-the-polls/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/15/do-naep-scores-have-legs-at-the-polls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In New York, 80 percent of 8th graders met the state&#8217;s standards in math this year, up from 59 percent two years ago.  But the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results released yesterday paint a different picture.  Only 34 percent of the state&#8217;s 8th graders are considered proficient, a modest increase from 2007 levels.  NAEP scores for the Empire State&#8217;s 4th [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Send Kids To School?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/27/why-send-kids-to-school/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/27/why-send-kids-to-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The single biggest problem in American education is that no one agrees on why we educate,&#8221; observes Diane Ravitch. &#8221;Faced with this lack of consensus, policy makers define good education as higher test scores.&#8221;  Ravitch&#8217;s comments come in a forum published by the New York Times Magazine, which also features input from Tom Vander Ark, Geoffrey [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;An Unavoidable Element of Subjectivity&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/10/an-unavoidable-element-of-subjectivity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/10/an-unavoidable-element-of-subjectivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diana Senechal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Carey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merit pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher evaluation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Schools need much more than merit pay to recruit and retain good teachers, argues Kevin Carey at the Quick and the Ed.  &#8220;They need strong leadership, good facilities, safe working conditions, and the right kind of organizational culture,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;You can’t paper over the lack of those things by simply tacking on a salary [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Confused</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/04/im-confused/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/04/im-confused/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When 97% of New York City schools get As and Bs on their report cards, it&#8217;s proof accountability works.  When 98% of teachers get satisfactory ratings, it&#8217;s proof there&#8217;s no accountability.
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Observations on Observations</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/27/observations-on-observations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/27/observations-on-observations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Merrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a teacher, would you rather be judged by a 200-page list of indicators of highly skilled teaching, or by a principal who shares your philosophy of teaching and learning, supports your approach and pretty much leaves you alone&#8211;but has the power to fire you at will? 
This question occurred to me after reading a long and excellent post [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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