Posted on 02/27/2014 9:09:23 AM PST by george76
Nevada education officials are making it easier for students to pass a math proficiency test that's required for graduation but has proved tough for high schoolers.
State board of education officials announced Wednesday that they would implement a pass score of 242 on the 500-point math portion of the high school proficiency exam.
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Nevada is more demanding than the growing public school practice of having a minimum grade of 50 percent. Of course, how many people nowadays can figure out that 242 out of 500 is less than 50 percent.
Third world people with Third world ways can only produce Third World results.
For the subject students (who likely are unable to read this): the passing score will be lowered to 48 percent. It's also known as an F for FAIL.
It also lowered, I mean eliminated, their truth standard for their senior senator.
When liberals fail they never improve things. They just redefine failure as success.
All you do is change a proficiency test to a "near proficiency" test.
The Communist Core goal is to lower the proficiency of math and everything else
“they would implement a pass score of 242 on the 500-point math portion of the high school proficiency exam.”
So 48% is now passing? Sure hope none of these students become engineers.
Here's what's wrong with lowering the standards....people with natural math skill and no effort in the course can get a scaled score, especially if there are mulitple choice and essay-BS "long answer" problems. That means the students with real math aptitude don't have to learn anything to pass. Other issue....a well-written test is about 1/3 easy; it creates a base score. The base score out of 500 would be 167. So they're practically handing a passing score to the minimally prepared students, unless the test doesn't cover what was taught.
Ahhhh.....but those are the old test-writing techniques. I don't think they're used much anymore.
If you keep them stupid you own them wonder who would want that?.
I doubt teachers would settle for 48% of their total paycheck for lowering the standard of education they are expected to deliver.
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“Nevada education officials are making it easier for students to pass a math proficiency test that’s required for graduation but has proved tough for high schoolers Mexican kids. Third world people with Third world ways can only produce Third World results.”
My kids describe how teachers will increase their grades if they bring in cans for a food drive or wear a certain color clothing on “school prode day” and such; it is just a variation on the cheating in the Atlanta schools. Every parent is led to believe their children are doing well due to the inflated grades, and they’re shocked when they see how dumb the kids are. Their are many problems with public education (including the work rules), but the worst is that the dumbest and most unethical people are teaching.
The far future is here. Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia.
“The Marching Morons” is a look at a far future in which the world’s population consists of five billion idiots and a few million geniuses – the precarious minority of the “elite” working desperately to keep things running behind the scenes. In his introduction to The Best of C.M. Kornbluth, Pohl states that “The Marching Morons” is a direct sequel to “The Little Black Bag”: it is easy to miss this, as “Bag” is set in the contemporary present while “Morons” takes place several centuries from now, and there is no character who appears in both stories. The titular black bag in the first story is actually an artifact from the time period of “The Marching Morons”: a medical kit filled with self-driven instruments enabling a far-future moron to “play doctor”. A future Earth similar to “The Marching Morons” – a civilisation of morons protected by a small minority of hidden geniuses – is used again in the final stages of Kornbluth & Pohl’s Search the Sky.[8]
I read “The Marching Morons” long ago, never imagining that I would live to see it for real. I wonder if some of the ideas for “IDIOCRACY” may have come from this book. It now seems that IDIOCRACY is a documentary.
One of the favorites of my teen years. And like you, events have caused me to recall it many times in the last few decades.
I see what you mean; we are living in an era where the idiots’ votes ensure them a piece of the geniuses’ wealth, and the geniuses will part with just enough to satisfy the basic needs of the idiots.
Yes, and the great numbers of those in between are vanishing. South Carolina used to be filled with jacks of all trades, the kind you would want to have around when things really go bad. The geniuses are often too specialized to be of much use in a real crunch and the idiots are just hopeless. This kind of man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gASpL4DyZng is the one you need by the millions and they are disappearing.
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