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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? And the people we interact with are the people at the state, the California Department of Education, CDE.

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Delayed Graduation, Thesis on Hiatus: In China, College Students Hit Pause

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I’m still missing one credit for physical education class, and two for my science and technology requirements,” Jiang said. “We For colleges in China and elsewhere, March and April is typically the prime season for students to go job hunting, often at career fairs and similar sorts of events.

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What I Learned About Math(s) Education In Australia

Robert Kaplinsky

If were a society that truly believes in equity, we cant exploit people for centuries and then pretend like everythings fair now. If youre wondering what leveling the playing field might look like in education, here are two of my attempts at implementing equitable solutions.

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