Posted on 03/23/2015 10:48:12 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Looks like somebody may have finally come up with a better system than Common Core. John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, New York was having a lot of trouble with their numbers.
Not enough students were graduating, and that’s bad for business. But rather than messing around with the tedious business of trying to motivate the students and their parents or examine how effective the teachers actually are, they clearly had one of those, wow, I could have had a V-8 moments. In 2009 they were only graduating 56% of their students. But by 2013 – just five short years later – they had boosted that number up to 74%. That’s some incredible progress! But how did they do it?
As it turns out, you can get the graduation numbers up far more efficiently if you just give almost everyone a passing grade.
Teaching kids takes so much effort, staffers at John Dewey HS in Brooklyn have found a quicker way to fix persistent failure rates, sources said: Just let them pass.
Investigators are probing accusations of a massive grade-fixing scheme by educators desperate to boost the graduation rate at Dewey, The Post has learned. Multiple sources claim Dewey is cutting corners by passing kids with the help of a shady “credit recovery” program that students sarcastically call “Easy Pass.”
The system allows failing pupils to get passing grades by playing games, doing work online or taking abbreviated programs that critics argue lack academic rigor.
There were also blended “Project Graduation” courses, where kids were given an opportunity to earn credit for a variety of subjects. But teachers were stunned when students who failed to pass those courses ended up on the graduation rolls anyway after assistant principals and department changed their grades, sources said.
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Exactly True !
People who apply themselves will be held back by the school's reputation .
It is the Socialist way : 'All people are equal' ( at the finish line)
Why bother to keep score at baskeball game ?
Why bother to keep grades up if everyone graduates ?
Grades represent achievement and effort
Socialism limits achievement, effort , and reward (grades) and piles it all together.
That's the effect of Social Justice in a Socialist system - everyone is equal at the finish line.
Pure Genius! Now print free money to eliminate poverty
Why didn’t we think of this before?
Funny how that matches up with the school's 39% majority Asian population and 11% minority white population.
Back in the Dark Ages, the valedictorian of my class took the easiest classes she could and was in the half day job program which gave her an automatic A. Being valedictorian meant 4 years of free state college tuition. Guess she was the smartest one in our class.
” Guess she was the smartest one in our class. “
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She sure knew how to play the game.
Four years free tuition is quite a payoff.
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As an added benefit, it also had the effect of cutting all electives including vocational courses.
The state rewarded schools that had an improvement in pass rates yearly with their share of federal funding for the next year. It all sounds noble except 3/4 of our students were ESL immigrants that left after 100 days but before the school year was over. They all failed the AIMS test (mostly by being no-shows) then left to become a burden on kalifornia districts for the rest of the year.
“...with the help of a shady “credit recovery” program that students sarcastically call “Easy Pass.””
Gee, wonder who thought that up, the admin or union...
“Just pass everyone.”
From the quality of some of the doctors I’ve seen in action lately, some medical schools may be on the same path. I remember when I thought that all doctors were smart as a prerequisite—times change I guess.
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