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To: IronJack
Especially when you have to waste so much of the day on actual education.

Less of that each year, going by test results.

8 posted on 09/01/2017 8:52:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Defensive weapons are not 'provocative' unless you're an aggressor." ~Gen. Mattis)
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To: Tax-chick

On the other hand I hold standardized test’ partly to blame for the shortened summer. In Arizona now, many schools start closer to the first week of August then the first week of September. Since standardized tests are held on a fixed date, schools discovered that they could get an advantage by starting the school year earlier. Like the peacock and its excessive plumage fostered by competition, all schools and all children nwo bear the burden of a competitive device.


20 posted on 09/01/2017 9:48:02 AM PDT by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: Tax-chick

Interesting, isn’t it? Longer school years, bigger and bigger budgets, constant “improvements” in educational methods, and yet our children are getting worse test scores than ever.


21 posted on 09/01/2017 9:54:22 AM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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