Education Department tries to ease testing worries

Associated Press ^ | Aug 21, 2014 2:51 PM EDT | Kimberly Hefling

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Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday that states can apply for extra time before they use student test scores to judge teachers’ performance.

Duncan’s decision is an acknowledgement of the concerns by teachers’ unions and others that it’s too early to make teacher personnel decisions based on how well students do on new assessments developed under the Common Core standards that will be used in much of the country this school year. …

[Morgana]

I’m still scared. HOMESCHOOL

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...new assessments developed under the Common Core standards that will be used in much of the country this school year...

But not in South Carolina thanks to our Gov, Nikki Haley.

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