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What’s wrong with California? A report from the STATS-DC conference

For the fourth time in six years, I spent more [...]

By Steve Rees|2019-08-23T13:32:49-07:00August 20th, 2018|communication, conference, legislation, Policy|0 Comments

Scholars scorch State Board’s resistance to a true growth measure

When the State Board of Education sat down on July [...]

By Steve Rees|2019-08-23T13:36:53-07:00July 16th, 2018|accountability, assessment, communication, dashboard, LCAP, Policy, research, State Board of Education|0 Comments

Paul Warren Criticizes CAASPP’s Misuse in CDE’s Dashboard

Paul Warren, research associate at the Public Policy Institute [...]

By Steve Rees|2019-09-12T11:17:11-07:00July 9th, 2018|accountability, assessment, dashboard, gap analysis, Policy, research, State Board of Education|Comments Off

Mismeasurement of gaps in LCAPs: bad arithmetic, bad logic

The serious subject of gaps has been a hot one [...]

By Steve Rees|2020-01-08T07:40:39-08:00February 16th, 2018|accountability, assessment, dashboard, gap analysis, LCAP, Policy|0 Comments

California’s 2017 CAASPP trouble is common to most SBAC states

California’s troublingly flat result on the 2017 CAASPP English/language arts [...]

By Steve Rees|2019-08-23T13:51:46-07:00January 16th, 2018|accountability, assessment, Policy|0 Comments