on 12/30/01 3:34 AM, Steve Rack at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> While clearing the recyclables out from under my desk I found a press
> release from 1997 about "Reinventing Education." As I recall this was
> supposed to change our lives:-)  I checked out the web site, it's
> still there but appears moribund.  One of the features we were
> promised back in '97 was a portfolio scoring tool. Was that ever
> developed?  I'd love to see a searchable database of benchmarks
> online. Imagine doing a quick search for all 8'th grade portfolio
> problems that score a level three bullet two for connections. That
> WOULD change my life!
> --
> Steve Rack
> Guilford Center School
> Guilford, VT.
What an interesting question.  I was one of the alpha testers for IBM along
with Deb Armitage.  We worked long and hard on a CD version of what you
described.  My understanding is that the CD bit the dust when the web
technology moved so quickly.  Although I have not been part of this for a
long time, I thought that work was just changing formats.  There were
multiple pieces to that Reinventing Education grant so maybe not everything
was completed.