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Best Practices in Data and Assessment

Every month, we share expertise on best practices in standards-based grading, how to streamline assessment systems, and tips to build a culture of meaningful, data-driven decision-making.

About the USNS Project

Forefront Education, founded in 2009, provides an assessment data and standards-based reporting and grading solution called…
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Standards Based Grades: Setting the Vision

The switch to standards-based grading increases specificity and accuracy: focusing on performance rather than progress and…
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USNS Validity and Reliability

Forefront Education commissioned an external review of the Universal Screeners for Number Sense (USNS) by a…
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Data Driven Instruction

Do teachers in your district think of data as a four-letter word? That’s because so much…
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Standards-based Grading Systems and Equity

"He is a C student." "She's bad at math." "These students are failing." Traditional grading systems…
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Give Teachers the Tools for Standards-Based Grading

  If your school or district embraces a standards-based grading system, your staff has already done…
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