Personalized Assessment
and Standards
Dear Readers
Letters from Deborah
Meier, Principal
of Mission Hill School
and Jill Davidson,
Horace editor. 
Feature Articles
Personalization,
High Standards and
the Assessment Debates
by Jill davidson
Example: Southern
Maine Partnership's
Local Comprehensive
Assessment System
Example: Middle
College High School
Space Science Overview
Book Reviews
Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights
by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr., reviewed by Nile Malloy
Portfolios Plus: A Critical Guide to Alternative Assessment
by Linda Mabry
The Power of Portfolios: What Children Can Teach Us About
Learning and Assessment
by Elizabeth A. Herbert
Punished by Rewards:
The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, a's, Praise,
and Other Bribes
by Alfie Kohn, reviewed by Kathy Simon
Failing our Kids: Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools
edited by Kathy Swope and Barbara Miner
Where to Go for More:
Resources for Responding to Calls for Accountability
Extra
Assessment Terminology:
Key Concepts for
Shared Understanding
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