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• Alternatives to Standardized Educational Assessment 
  An American educator who was examining the British educational system once asked a headmaster why so little standardized testing took place in British schools. "My dear fellow," came the reply, "In Britain we are of the belief that, when a child is hungry, he should be fed, not weighed." This anecdote suggests the complementary question: "Why is it that we do so much standardized testing in the United States?"
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• Cost of a National Examination 
  Recent proposals from the federal executive branch and private groups have drawn unprecedented attention to the idea of a national examination for elementary and secondary students. The House Committee on Education and Labor asked GAO to look at school testing as it exists today, describe its nature, estimate its extent and cost, and assess how a new, national test might affect those factors.
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• Opportunity To Learn Standards: Their Impact on Urban Students 
  Common sense dictates that in order for students to achieve they must have appropriate opportunities to learn. The concept of "opportunity to learn" (OTL) strategies was first introduced several decades ago and was defined by a narrow set of instructional components. Since then, educators and policy makers have incorporated many additional criteria into the OTL concept, some specifically to ensure an equal education for disadvantaged and minority students.
  http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-3/urban.htm - More

• Professional Standards Development: Teacher Involvement 
  During the last decade, the U.S. education community witnessed a proliferation of standards-driven reform efforts. The primary objectives of these efforts have been (1) to increase student achievement to a level that is competitive with that of other industrialized nations (Shanker, 1994); (2) to restore public confidence in education (Edmundson, 1993); and (3) to provides a brief overview of the work of several influential standards-setting bodies and summarizes the primary ways in which classroom teachers are involved.
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• Standards: The Policy Environment 
  This Digest offers a snapshot of the standards movement: its origins, its successes at the district and state levels, the backlash against the movement, and possible policy directions.
  http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-2/standards.html - More

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