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<div>The Assessment and Accountability Update for August 9, 2013 is now available!</div>
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<div><b>Direct link to PDF:</b> <a href="http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/testing/asmtacty_update_08_09_13.pdf"><font color="blue"><u>http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/testing/asmtacty_update_08_09_13.pdf</u></font></a></div>
<div><b>Link to AA Update webpage and individual articles:</b><font color="#244061"> </font><a href="http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=1303"><font color="blue"><u>http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=1303</u></font></a></div>
<div><b>Link to current and past issues:</b> <a href="http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=1312"><font color="blue"><u>http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=1312</u></font></a></div>
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<div style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:15pt;"><b>In This Issue:</b></span></font></div>
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<b>Test Administration - </b><b><i>OAKS Online, ELPA & Writing</i></b> </div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">New Mathematics Assessment Specialist at ODE </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Reminder: DTC Trainings Begin Next Week </li></ul>
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<b>Accountability Reporting</b> </div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Refinement of Freshmen on Track </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">New Report Card Validations Now Open in ADI </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Interpreting School Ratings </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Supplemental 2012-13 Report Card Data Collection Window </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">District Details/AMO Validation Available August 8, 2013 </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Important Dates for the Weeks and Months Ahead </li></ul>
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<b>Smarter Balanced Assessment, ELPA21, and Next Generation Science</b> </div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">New Information for the Smarter Balanced Field Test </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Smarter Balanced Practice Test News </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Smarter Balanced State Leadership Team and State Network of Educators Update </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">College and Career Ready English Language Proficiency Standards: Timeline </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Next Generation Science Standards and Oregon Science Education</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"> </li></ul>
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