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T.H.E. Journal April 2005 Leslie A. Pulliam	The Quest for Quality Instructional Data The most successful school districts are embracing the philosophy that accurate data plays a critical role in driving instruction and making informed decisions. But there is still much more to learn.
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Greg Decker	Using Data to Drive Student Achievement in the Classroom and on High-Stakes Tests To increase student achievement in the classroom and on state tests, teachers need current and accurate data today. They need to see the relationship between student performance on curriculum and performance on the tests. In addition, they need to see it in real time, not months later.
T.H.E. Journal December 2000	Online Test Prep Tutoring SkillsTutor.com has launched its new Internet curriculum program, SkillsTutor. This Web-based program is designed to support mastery of core skills and prepare students to take state and national standardized tests...
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T.H.E. Journal September 2001 Matthew Miller	Focus on Assessment Tools Exciting new assessment tools benefit both students and educators. These tools are making teaching simpler and more rewarding for instructors, because they can now concentrate more on their students' education and not on creating documents...
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T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush	Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development.
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T.H.E. Journal December 2007 Matt Bolch	Custom-Built Curriculum Districts are abandoning textbooks and instead picking and choosing their own instructional materials that more closely align to new academic standards.
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T.H.E. Journal September 2006 Neal Starkman	Formative Assessment: Building a Better Student By testing academic performance at regular intervals, formative assessment strategies regard every child as a work in progress.
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T.H.E. Journal December 2002	Polk Co. Schools Rely on Florida-Specific Assessment Tool to Develop Individual Learning Paths A unique assessment program in a large Florida school district has proven that a vision, commitment, comprehensive assessment and instructional technology strategy can yield dramatic gains in student achievement scores.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Anita Givens	Technology Integration: Meeting the Technology Integration Challenge in Texas Schools Deep in the heart of Texas classrooms, students use digital technology to access, analyze and evaluate information; solve problems; and communicate with diverse audiences.
T.H.E. Journal January 2006 Elaine A. Studnicki	The Unkindest Cut of All Technology budgets are often the first to be reduced. The following eight questions will help you determine where to start trimming.
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua	A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance.
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T.H.E. Journal February 2008 Jeff Weinstock	Make It a Test Worth Teaching To Settling the ardent debate over state assessments may start with a most elementary solution.
T.H.E. Journal August 2005	Two New Releases from Plato Learning Completing their Writing Process and Practice series, Plato Learning has released two new products designed to improve students' literacy and writing skills.
T.H.E. Journal April 2005	Developing a Standardized Measure for Reading Ability With a standardized reading measure, teachers and parents will know a student's reading ability is continuing to increase, or, if it has decreased, know that it has been measured by a common scale based on the student's ability and not on content.
T.H.E. Journal March 2008 Matt Villano	Five on Five: A Dialogue on Profession Development A quintet of educators gathers to sound off on what works and what doesn't in the ongoing mission to train teachers to use technology in classroom instruction.
T.H.E. Journal January 2005 Barbara Frey	A Virtual School Principal's To-Do List The following to-do list shows the differences and likenesses in this new realm of virtual education.
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Geotimes September 2004 Harold McWilliams	Transforming Teachers into Designers Earth Science by Design promotes creating stronger, more professional earth science teachers, fully versed in the core ideas of their discipline and skilled in the curriculum design techniques that the best developers have used for years.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Gale Cooley	Professional Development: Westside School Celebrates the Successful Infusion of Technology into State Curriculum Westside School has just finished having a successful "Technology Celebration" that indicated how they are infusing technology into the Tennessee state curriculum by showcasing student demonstrations and projects.
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T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Mary Ann Wolf	Systemic School Reform :: A Guiding Hand A systemic approach to school reform demands leaders with vision, who understand how every step of their efforts fits together to support teachers and benefit students.
D-Lib January 2006 Kastens & Holzman	The Digital Library for Earth System Education Provides Individualized Reports for Teachers on the Effectiveness of Educational Resources in Their Own Classrooms The Instructors' Individualized Reports from DLESE's Community Review System are leveraging the digital character of the library to generate insights for instructors about the nature and quality of the interaction between resources in the library and students.
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