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The 4-day school week is becoming more and more common. Are state legislators “trying to balance the budget… on the backs our babies?”(Chicago Tribune)
Test-optional policies: How do they affect equity, college rankings, marketing, budgets, student body demographics?(The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Is raising reading scores a bigger challenge than boosting math scores? The Nation’s Report Card offers some insight. (Joanne Jacobs)
Need some assistance understanding NAEP? (Education Sector)
Need some assistance understanding NAEP? (Education Sector)
Better hiring = less firing? (Eduwonk)
Reams of Data for a Low, Low Price
Jay Matthews has a new story explaining how Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Superintendent Jerry Weast is using the National Student Clearinghouse, a data repository with college-level records for 92 percent of all college students in the country, to find how graduates of his high schools perform in college:
Among the pieces of paper [Weast] unloaded during a recent visit was a blue, green, orange and yellow bar graph titled “MCPS Graduates