“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.
also see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928705/posts
NYC uses everyday math
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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.
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.
“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.
Simple test. Give all students all the accommodations they need and see if the test scores go through the roof.