THE News Update
8/27/2015

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  • ACT Sounds Alarm over U.S. Student Test Results

    This year's ACT results show 31 percent of students still unready for college in English, math, reading or science — every subject tested by the assessment organization. That's a figure that has not changed since 2012, when it was slightly higher. Fewer than a fifth of those students can be expected to go on to earn a college degree within six years.

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  • New Task Force To Tackle Educator Assessment Literacy

    The organization behind the national K-12 assessment Measures of Academic Progress has kicked off a new professional development initiative to help teachers learn how to work with assessments.

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  • Pennsylvania Students Build 3D Printers

    Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School students participated in weeklong workshops in which they built their own 3D printers.

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