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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

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When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Help or Hindrance?

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Marketplace trend update: 6 new products, teaching strategies, and learning initiatives

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The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. On the 2015 AzMERIT statewide benchmark exam, only 2 percent of ELLs passed the language arts section, and 6 percent passed the math section of the exam.

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What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

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Fellows explicitly called out the need for college leaders to do more to support and provide access to high-quality education to groups such as low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities and mental health issues, refugees, first-generation college students and women and non-binary students.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

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“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

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Even the College Board, maker of the SAT, advised colleges to be flexible about requiring the test in the upcoming admissions cycle because of challenges students face getting to in-person tests and glitches in the group’s efforts to administer exams remotely. Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

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Why Oregon teachers despise the Smarter Balanced tests

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A study by the Council of the Great City Schools found that Portland and Oregon students are some of the least-tested in the country when it comes to mandated standardized exams. Nearly all teachers who took the survey said students with disabilities needed more and better accommodations. The behaviors in my classroom have been awful.

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