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timberlane regional school and joins us from new hampshire. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you today? >> i'm doing fine. why get rid of the midterms and the final? >> i have to correct you a little bit. we're not getting rid of testing all together. we're still going to be assessing our students in a the lot of different ways. what we've done is removed the structure that our midterms and finals were delivered in. what we looked at was how can we best assess and find out what a student knows based on what our curriculum is telling us is the important pieces. >> ok, what you found was when students have -- wherever they are in the lesson plan, they got to stop and then review everything that they've learned so far for the midterm or the final, that's disruptive for the learning process. >> exactly. that takes at least eight days out of our school year and we turn those eight days back over to our teachers and we've asked them to really look at the competencies in 2008, the state of new hampshire mandated that all high school curricula becomes competency base.
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