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• Florida governor signs education bills focused on state standards
• IMF head withdraws from Smith College commencement
• 3 Ways High School Teachers Can Improve Assessments
• Presidential checklist: jockeying for position

Florida governor signs education bills focused on state standards Posted: 12 May 2014 04:57 PM PDT By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Three education bills designed to push back against what conservative Republicans consider federal intrusion into local authority over schools were signed into law on Monday by Florida Governor Rick Scott. \"The legislation I am signing today will ... reaffirm that Florida school boards will select the textbooks with historic opportunities for public input,\" Scott, a conservative Republican up for re-election, said in announcing his bill signings. The measure by Republican state Senator Alan Hays was prompted partly by complaints from parents who felt some books unfairly presented foreign cultures and doctrines, such as sharia law, in public schools. Another measure, by Republican Senator Dorothy Hukill, forbids schools and county districts to collect \"biometric\" information from students, including fingerprint, palm print and other identification information.

IMF head withdraws from Smith College commencement Posted: 12 May 2014 12:31 PM PDT The managing director of the International Monetary Fund backed out of giving this year's commencement address at Smith College in the wake of protests from faculty and students, the school announced Monday. ...

3 Ways High School Teachers Can Improve Assessments Posted: 12 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT And while most teachers find value in assessments, major gaps persist in assessment literacy -- how much teachers know about educational testing. Between 29 percent and 61 percent of teachers were able to correctly define the purpose and use of each of seven different types of assessments in a recent survey on student and teacher perceptions of assessment by the Northwest Evaluation Association, an education nonprofit.

Presidential checklist: jockeying for position Posted: 11 May 2014 11:44 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest prep work for a presidential campaign, Rand Paul is conspicuously courting moderate and establishment Republicans while Ted Cruz keeps up a travel schedule that has 2016 written all over it.

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