"This requires a combination of increasingly sophisticated data, self-evaluation and local knowledge, " she said.

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Clearly, our resistance to frank self-evaluation has been going on for a long, long time.

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Self-evaluation was an improvement, making schools look hard at how they were performing, she said.

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That self-evaluation became a self-fulfilling prophecy in his first debate with Mitt Romney.

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Despite the tough self-evaluation, the quarterback looked pretty good during practice.

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