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Testing for Results:
Using Assessment to Measure Effectiveness and Drive Instruction

Selected Resources
A companion to the January 2002 Satellite Town Meeting

Testing and Accountability

Achieve

Achieve Inc. is a nonprofit organization specializing in creating benchmarking standards, information, and advice for state leaders. In addition to an online standards database, the website features information on key initiatives and policy briefs, such as the 2001 Summit Statement Of Principles.

Just for the Kids

Just for the Kids is a nonprofit organization providing tools to support public school improvement. This website is their primary information resource where they collect and share performance data about schools and information about best practices.

StandardsWork^TM

StandardsWork^TM, a nonprofit education consultancy, helps communities and schools work together to advance meaningful, lasting, and effective standards-based education reform. StandardsWork works hand-in-hand with states and communities throughout the country to improve student performance through the development and implementation of grade-by-grade standards, results-based evaluation systems, and other quality tools and processes.

School Evaluation Services by Standard and Poor's

To help parents and educators and policymakers evaluate schools, School Evaluation Services provides school assessments based on a diagnostic tool that takes academic, financial and demographic "data from a variety of sources and organizes these data into a unique framework consistent across schools, districts, and states." These unique contextual factors are considered with academic standards to measure the effectiveness of individual school districts.

U.S. Department of Education links for accountability, standards & assessment resources

This webpage offers links to outside organizations and department webpages with resources and information about academic standards and accountability.

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