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Better than tests

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If not standardized tests, then what?
That question was soundly answered last night at the forum, “Assessments that Make Sense” in Bronzeville (photos coming)
A room crowded with parents, teachers, students and community members from all over the city heard Monty Neill  present two successful alternatives to standardized testing accountability:

• the Performance Assessment student project-based model used in New York in place of state Regents’ exams, and
• the Learning Record, a teacher- based observation and reporting system that has been used in dozens of Bureau of Indian Affairs schools and in California and New York City.

High school students assessed in the Performance Assessment model, who demographically include far more low-income, English-language learner and special education students than the state overall, have shown better high school graduation rates and college enrollment and graduation rates than stdents across the state.