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How to Emotionally Prepare Students for Standardized Testing
By Andrew Hawk During the last fifteen years, standardized testing’s place in public education has been a hotly debated topic. Though standardized testing has been around for some time, the stakes attached to tests were raised dramatically by the No … Continue reading
Friday Link Roundup
No Child Left Behind was one of those wonderful and increasingly rare things that everyone could agree on—conservatives and liberals, teachers and business groups, parents and students, politicos at the state and federal level. Nobody liked it. Calling it a … Continue reading
Breathe! 6 Strategies to Reduce Stress During Testing Season
Part of our Cash in on Learning Series by Richard M. Cash, Ed.D. Click to read other Cash in on Learning posts. It’s that time of year again: TESTING! With the sun shining outside and the warm weather approaching, our … Continue reading
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