<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kevin G Welner</b><span dir="auto"></span><br></div><br>





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<p class="MsoNormal">We are asking educational researchers to please consider <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12X8Al03Dh9j1JvNo0bRtbLTZ8woQMKFG6WhErW033iE/viewform?edit_requested=true" target="_blank">
signing on</a> to the attached open letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona -- also available to read at
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14vcMFV4_dzfWvSRRJoggVH-37gxFcsxb/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">The letter was jointly written by the Beyond Test Scores Project and the National Education Policy Center. It addresses concerns about spring testing, and it puts this issue within the context of larger concerns about test-based accountability
 policies.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please sign by Sunday evening, as we plan to send the letter to Secretary Cardona on Monday (March 22nd).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">And please share this with your other networks of educational researchers.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help!<br>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers, k<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">--<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Prof. Kevin G. Welner (he/him) <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Chair, Educational Foundations, Policy, & Practice<br>
Director, National Education Policy Center<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">School of Education<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">University of Colorado Boulder<br>
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