Joan Herman

Director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, UCLA

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Director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at the University of California-Los Angeles, and author of Tracking Your School's Success: A Guide to Sensible Evaluation

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