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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Google "Smarter Balanced Assessment" and See What you Get.

Is this a crystal ball moment?  Looking into the crystal ball today about noon and googling the above search term, this is what I got:
NOTICE: This domain name expired on 04/19/2013 and is pending renewal or deletion.
http://smarterbalanced.org/?nr=0
Why is the smarterbalanced.org domain expired?  Is it:
  • disappearing like a bad relationship
  • being absorbed into a public/private partnership that will henceforth be known as a different name (akin to CCSS being renamed Missouri Learning Standards?)
  • taking itself off the internet now that folks know about the standards and their unresearched/non-documented claims
  • not paying attention to details such as renewing a website...which makes one wonder what will happen to student personal data sent to SBAC per MOUs signed by the states

UPDATE!

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balanced-assessments/

It's back on line.  It must be the 4th bullet point.  This could be worrisome.

Posted by at 12:18 PM
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  1. 3rseduc / handsinthesoilApril 20, 2013 at 12:32 PM

    thanks for blogging this since I didn't :) I so wish I had screen-shot some of it yesterday. I saw it at lunch yesterday and quickly browsed it. Had I known it would disappear...
    And yes I agree, if they forgot to renew their site....and we trust them with student data?
    If they purposely deleted it I REALLY want to know why.

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