Obama team’s support for portfolio assessment

Thanks to Checker Finn’s shop (where they’re not wild about this), we have this news:

Tuesday morning on the Diane Rehm Show … Obama staffer Melody Barnes expressed her candidate’s openness to using portfolios to assess student achievement under No Child Left Behind .

I don’t have time to blog more now ( I’m turning around my pre-service students’ lesson plans for next week), but I thought I’d at least post this link.

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This entry was written by Tony Whitson and posted on October 23, 2008 at 5:56 pm and filed under Education, Education Law & Policy, NCLB, Politics of Education, Standards & Testing, assessment, blog, curriculum, educational testing, testing with tags . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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