Posted on 03/02/2015 12:44:37 PM PST by Roos_Girl
More students are expected to flunk. School districts warn they might not be ready. And parents are threatening to boycott.
Ready or not — and many school boards, parents and teachers have been screaming to lawmakers that they’re not — Florida will roll out its new, much debated standardized tests on Monday.
The Florida Department of Education is forging ahead, even with a host of unknowns hanging in the air. Students, for instance, don’t even know what score they’ll have to make to pass.
“We need to question if we have gone too far, too fast,” Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho recently told a Florida Senate education committee.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article11858981.html#storylink=cpy
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Can someone explain to me what "demographics" have to do with being able to answer test questions, or do I probably already know?
Fearless prediction:
Most students will obtain less-than-passing scores.
Those students will be able to retake the test, up to perhaps six times.
By the time the sixth iteration of the test is given, the scores required to pass will have been lowered, so that most of them will be considered to have passed.
Those students will obtain high school diplomas.
A plurality of them will enter community college.
They will immediately be placed into "remedial" courses, where they will be taught what they should have learned in high school.
Most of them will not graduate from community college.
I though Gov. Scott put a stop to this testing last week...?
I'm in Miami, FL and we started all of this garbage today. I think it went pretty smoothly but then, I wasn't testing MY kids. That comes tomorrow, probably. I got the test administrator's training today.
I think you nailed it.
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