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"The notion of authentic assessment -- judging a child's work first hand rather than summing it up with a letter or a number -- goes back to the beginnings of the progressive education movement a century ago. Even then portfolios were considered time-consuming, but many teachers and students liked them and they became a key part of the alternative public schools that were born in the 1960s and 1970s. At Central Park East Secondary School in Manhattan, Deborah Meier and other progressive educators began to judge low-income, inner city students based on collections of their best work and oral examinations, and found that if they did well on those alternative assessments, they got into college and did well there. "
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