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The challenge for policymakers

How can we approach quality assurance based on individual student outcomes along with inputs? Assessing a school is difficult without clear data on individual student growth—online or otherwise—to determine whether a program is actually supporting students to meet their educational goals. This report is not intended to be a treatise on comparing growth models. It is clear, however, that we need measures that show actual student learning outcomes—and we must realize that most states and schools are using a flawed assessment system that doesn't necessarily measure entry and exit knowledge across the entire K-12 curriculum. This situation makes quality assurance a major challenge in the United States.

As well as in any other country, Brazil’s Education System has a policy for teaching standards, which cover foreign language learning. In primary school, for instance, the curriculum is built upon content areas or strands. They are outlined by what kids can or cannot successfully do in English (or even Spanish) and it’s divides between stages. What are these strands?