<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Rubric Validation on Acceleration Denied</title><link>https://accelerationdenied.com/tags/rubric-validation/</link><description>Recent content in Rubric Validation on Acceleration Denied</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0600</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://accelerationdenied.com/tags/rubric-validation/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Last Resort: When a Simple Question Requires a FOIA Request</title><link>https://accelerationdenied.com/blog/the-last-resort/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0600</pubDate><guid>https://accelerationdenied.com/blog/the-last-resort/</guid><description>&lt;div class="callout callout-info"&gt;
 &lt;div class="callout-title"&gt;Update: December 18, 2025&lt;/div&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The FOIA response arrived.&lt;/strong&gt; On December 15, 2025, the district responded to this request. All three predictions below were confirmed: no validation research exists, no equity analysis was conducted, and the rubric thresholds have no documented rationale. Students scoring as low as 65% were approved through MTSS discretionary review—while my daughter at 63% was denied without that same review.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read the full findings:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://accelerationdenied.com/blog/what-the-foia-revealed/"&gt;What the FOIA Revealed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>