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Miss Malarkey volume 3
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English
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Although the teachers, the principal, and parents say The Test is not important, their actions tell another story.
11) The testing
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The Testing trilogy volume 1
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English
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing -- their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on is that schools need to be held accountable - we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does it mean in practice? High-stakes tests. Lots of them. And that has created a crisis in American schools....
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"There are many careers to choose from within the world of math. Using the unique personality tests in this book, you can learn more about yourself, your skills, and your likes and dislikes so that you can discover what math career might suit you"--Adapted from back cover.
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"No sooner is a child walking and talking than the ABCs and 1-2-3s give way to the full-on alphabet soup: the ERBs, the OLSAT, the IQ, the NCLB for AYP, the IEP for ELLs, the CHAT and PDDST for ASD or LD and G&T or ADD and ADHD, the PSATs, then the ACTs and SATs-all designed to assess and monitor a child's readiness for education. In many public schools, students are spending up to 28% of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this...
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