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PART VI CONCLUSION
Pages 285-290

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From page 287...
... I think, for example, of the differences among chiefs, district superintendents, and state boards of education trying to decide whether or not to close a university school of education. The state of Oregon in 1991 substantially reduced the sizes of schools of education at Oregon State University and the University of Oregon, terminating all teacher training at the 287
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From page 288...
... I think we would have to identify stake holders and policy makers, examine the kinds of choices and decisions they are making or intending to make, and then begin to map backward and ask, "What kinds of data would make it possible to render informed decisions instead of simply sticking a damp finger in the air? " Dick Murnane commented on the misconceptions or misinterpretations that can readily be made by policy makers from looking at individual figures.
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From page 289...
... To be board certified in internal medicine means an indi vidual is already board certified nationally in general, has completed at least a three-year supervised residency in an approved training program in internal medicine, and has passed a set of examinations in that field. There is no comparable question I can ask about teachers.
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From page 290...
... It would seem useful for NCES to target a few states in which such experiments are under way to create new kinds of teacher quality data and to plan some collaborative efforts with them to discover how to include those data in a broader set of data bases. Finally, we should consider the current discussions of a national examination system.
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