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What Parents Should Know About the New CAASPP Reporting 2023
Teresa Davis Teresa Davis

What Parents Should Know About the New CAASPP Reporting 2023

If you are a parent and your child is in third grade or above and participates in California’s Assessment for Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), you may have noted some changes this year in how those results are being reported to you.

In particular, you may have noticed the Lexile and Quantile report accompanies the main report.

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The Economics of Mediocrity
Education, Social Commentary Teresa Davis Education, Social Commentary Teresa Davis

The Economics of Mediocrity

Have you noticed that problems don’t seem to get solved these days? There are a number of issues that one would think, after all this time, that time, money, technology, innovation, policy or any combination of these things would have at least made a sizable dent in the issue if not resolved outright. And yet, there are a number of societal problems that seem to be getting worse as time passes rather than better.

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