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        <title>Standardized Testing</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Test scores under investigation at Burbank school]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-me-ln-test-scores-under-investigation-at-burbank-school-20130421,0,6239402.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-04-21 14:40:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A McKinley Elementary teacher has been placed on administrative leave after a third-grade student reported that the teacher helped a class answer questions on state standardized tests this week. 

Burbank Unified Supt. Jan Britz, who made the announcement...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Atlanta test scores: Cheating is cheating]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-ed-cheating-atlanta-test-scores-20130403,0,1217679.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-04-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Suspending some standardized tests could save state $15 million]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-ed-cheating-atlanta-test-scores-20130403,0,1217679.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-03-13 21:13:42</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Student test scores can identify effective teachers, new study says]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-ed-cheating-atlanta-test-scores-20130403,0,1217679.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-01-08 13:03:41</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Teacher evaluation bill might not pass muster with feds, official says]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-ed-cheating-atlanta-test-scores-20130403,0,1217679.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-08-17 20:12:51</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Schools caught cheating on standardized tests [Google+ hangout]]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-ed-cheating-atlanta-test-scores-20130403,0,1217679.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-10-30 11:44:17</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Updated teacher observations key to improvement, report says]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-ed-cheating-atlanta-test-scores-20130403,0,1217679.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Some Republican presidential candidates' blast from the past; a poll on teachers; ending the Occupy L.A. encampment]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-ed-cheating-atlanta-test-scores-20130403,0,1217679.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-11-28 08:06:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[When layoffs come to L.A. schools, performance doesn't count]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-me-1205-teachers-seniority-20101204,0,3251536.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2010-12-04 20:30:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[John H. Liechty Middle School opened in 2007 in Los Angeles' impoverished Westlake neighborhood with a seasoned principal, dozens of energetic young teachers and a mission to "reinvent education" in the nation's second-largest school district.

The...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[L.A.'s leaders in learning]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-me-schools-value-20100822,0,365492.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2010-08-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Five families from across the San Fernando Valley set up camp for three nights by the front door of Wilbur Avenue Elementary School in 2009, intent on getting a spot for their children in one of the best-regarded schools in Los Angeles. Others hired...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who's teaching L.A.'s kids?]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-me-teachers-value-20100815,0,1533667.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2010-08-14 12:34:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The fifth-graders at Broadous Elementary School come from the same world &#8212; the poorest corner of the San Fernando Valley, a Pacoima neighborhood framed by two freeways where some have lost friends to the stray bullets of rival gangs.

Many are the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fedde Academy in Hawaiian Gardens enacts ambitious change]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-me-abc-20110325,0,6937110.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-03-27 19:24:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Like almost every teacher at this Hawaiian Gardens middle school, science instructor John Laird posts his students' standardized test results in the back of his classroom.

But right next to them, Laird also put up his own evaluation. "This is my report...]]></description>
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