Posted on 11/20/2007 9:32:53 PM PST by neverdem
“So many New York City students received extra time and other accommodations on a respected national test this year ...”
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This is just basic training for how to vote for your favorite Dimocrat.
OK, you passed.
Schools Chancellor = advanced Sanitation Engineer.
The NEA was created to produce ignorant and sheeplated Democrat voters, nothing more.
also see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928705/posts
NYC uses everyday math
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
Thanks for the link. I was in the process of reading it already.
New York City is the kind of place where the “accommodations” given to students on these exams would probably include testing their English proficiency — in Spanish.
No wait, you didn't translate it into Spanish
Knowing how to use a calculator does not make one “math proficient.”
The whole state education appartchiks have succeeeded in sinking the whole system...I see college students who “graduated” from pubic schools who cannot write a coherent paragraph, can hardly read, and do basic elementary math.
But they do know that it is “Bush’s fault”
There is a similar situation in colleges but for different reasons.
If parents have money and their child is not academically successful they take their child to a psychiatrist who declares that he/she has a learning disorder and needs up to 200% more time to take a test. They can also ask for a separate administration after everyone else has taken the test because the kid gets nervous in the classroom with other students and can’t concentrate.
Unfortunately it is very common. I am not against students getting extra tutoring or help but when 10% of the class is getting extra time the other 90% are being penalized.
% not meeting proficient % " " basic
4th grade reading
white 53 19
black 83 48
hispanic 82 49
asian 50 21
all students 64 31
4th grade math
white 44 6
black 82 31
hispanic 75 26
asian 31 6
all students 57 15
8th grade reading
white 57 13
black 86 44
hispanic 84 44
asian 63 20
all students 68 25
8th grade math
white 61 18
black 90 54
hispanic 85 46
asian 47 14
all students 70 30
New York's $15,000 per student per year public education is clearly being wasted on about 2/3 of its students.
What’s the URL of the source, please?
“N.Y. Gave the Most Breaks for School Exam”
For trying to keep testing as NON-Standardized as possible, NY would
have to work hard to keep up with the Los Angeles Unified School District
(LAUSD; aka, “LA Mummified”).
During my decade in LA, even The Los Angeles Times would report that the
LAUSD would calmly admit that “the standardized test administered this
year is different from the one given last year...so year-to-year
comparisons are meaningless.”
Apparently this was something that PLEASED the illegals, Democratic
bosses and the LAUSD.
Total Unaccountability.
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