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Corrected: An earlier version of this study incorrectly described the 1998 study by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. It is a literature review. If you ask five teachers what formative assessment is, ...

What does it mean to be college-ready? That’s a question that’s driving one of the biggest projects in education right now: the development of assessments for the Common Core State Standards. And as ...