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edCount Works with Five-State Consortium in Launching Website to Help Educators Evaluate Validity of Assessments Washington, D.C. – A five-state consortium working with edCount, LLC, and four other education and research organizations, today launched a new...

Announces Opening of Wyoming Office, Hires Three Associates Washington, D.C.—edCount, LLC has opened an office in Laramie, Wyoming. Three veteran educators, all who have worked for the Wyoming Department of Education, have been hired to staff the office. Bill Herrera,...

Charlotte, N.C.—The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system (CMS) has selected edCount, LLC to assist them in the development of a series of tests designed to assess the school district's Advanced Placement (AP) programs and other high school courses. To complete this...

New computer-based tests will be aligned with common core California and Wisconsin each have formed a consortium with other states and applied for the full $10.7 million available in a grant competition to create English-language-proficiency tests for the states'...

--  Excerpt from Education Daily's "ED encourages common definition for ELLs" article (January 20, 2011) ED sees state collaboration as a benefit and is therefore creating a priority within the EAG that applicants must include at least 15 states in a...

Firm to Work with National Center on Educational Outcomes as Member of New National Center and State Collaborative Partnership Washington, D.C. – edCount, LLC, a research firm dedicated to supporting policy development, program evaluations and assessments,...

Firm to Work with Westat, Inc., and Mathematica Policy Research in Measuring Approaches to College and Career Readiness Washington, D.C. – edCount, LLC, a research firm dedicated to supporting policy development, program evaluations and assessments, announced...

edCount President Ellen Forte to Serve as Principal Investigator Washington, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Education today announced it is awarding a team comprised of edCount, LLC and Synergy Enterprises, Inc. (SEI), a contract to study well-designed and implemented...

The U.S. Department of Education announced today that it will award a $1.6 million Grant for Enhanced Assessment Instruments to the Washington State Office of Public Instruction for a project developed through a partnership between Washington State and edCount, LLC....

edCount staff gave presentations in six sessions over the course of the Council of Chief State School Officers’ (CCSSO) National Conference on Student Assessment held in Los Angeles, CA, in June 2009. The National Conference on Student Assessment is hosted annually by...

Today, edCount, LLC hosted its first interactive web conference for education stakeholders. The webinar, entitled “Making Tests Fair for English Language Learners,” featured two presenters from the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Using a recently developed set of...

In March 2009, edCount, LLC, welcomed its newest staff member, Elizabeth Towles-Reeves, Ph.D., to its growing team of education policy analysts. An experienced researcher and evaluator, Dr. Towles-Reeves is a specialist in alternate assessment and services to students...