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In first, four N.H. school districts shake up testing with Feds' approval Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:00 PM PST A cluster of public school districts in New Hampshire is radically redefining testing and accountability in a first-of-its-kind pilot project approved Thursday by the US Department of Education. These assessments require students to apply what they've learned in multiple steps and tasks. "It fits into a much bigger conversation about ... how we can create a humane assessment system that's useful to teachers but also useful to states and the federal government for holding schools accountable," says Julia Freeland, a research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, based in San Mateo, Calif. New Hampshire has been transitioning statewide to "competency-based learning," in which students are expected to master key concepts in each subject rather than just put in the seat time and get a minimal passing grade.

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