It’s easy to do well when you fudge the numbers.
Single payer schools work so well, I can hardly wait for single payer health care.
The only kids now getting a “fair to good” education are the Asian kids with driven parents, or the kids that go to top private schools that take high achievers.
Anyone over age of 40 probably got in at the tail end of good public education. Everyone else, it is pure luck if you can get a good or even fair education.
81 to 18!!!
Just....... wow.
Unfortunately, about all it means when we hear of improvements on standardized test scores is that either the tests have been greatly dumbed down, or the administrators and teachers have been involved in widespread cheating to up their students’ scores.
Being a liberal means not having to worry about reality, emotions are all that matters. Doing badly? Here, take an easier test.
This seems to be a state testing, so Bloomberg isn’t that involved. It’s probably residual from the Pataki days, just taking effect.
It’s not that the kids did any worse this year, but that the standards were so much higher and scoring tougher. If scored as they were in the past they’d be the same. Ignorant, but happy about it, with tons of self-esteem !
This is a good thing, long term. Over the years, the standards were lowered to a kid’s having literacy if s/he could spell his/her name. If they could spell the teacher’s name they were ‘gifted.’ Now they have stricter standards that are going to have to be met, at the sacrifice of some social engineering programs.
In the last 8 years I've prepped these exams, proctored them, corrected them and they were and are bogus.They test skills that are only tangential to real life and learning. The exams are graded by teachers either relieved from teaching duties or paid per session after school. The only quality control usually results in a score being raised. The state sets a numerical standard each year for the magical 4 3 2 1 grades and that score is not rigorous, and neither has been the exam. This year's exam was nomore difficult than past years but the state raised the scoring guideline. Next year the exam is to be more challenging. Bloomie and Klein will have a year to create new explanations for their failure.
Great example of the destructiveness of Govt intervention. No child left behind was supposed to be the answer. It had possibility but after a few years now the good is circumventable and the bad becomes the standard.
On the NY State Regents exam for Algebra, you only need to get half of the multiple-choice question right to pass, and not even bother with the 9 open-ended questions. This is make up for the fact that they asked some of the stupidest questions, and when you least expect it, ask several questions requiring depth of knowledge in minor Algebra topics that are usually glossed over because there’s over 100+ topics that need to be taught. That’s the curriculum for you: mile-wide, inches-deep.
The article is, indeed, believable...
The various subgroups of students are all performing exactly as one expects them to do. And nothing is going to change that.
One of the questions asked about the effects of pollution on the Black Forest in Germany.
We never once covered such material in school and I missed the question, lowering my score. I was ready for biology, physics, chemistry and such.
I’ve lived in School District 21 for most of my life and I’ve never heard of this school. Apparently it’s probably a stone’s throw away because Gravesend isn’t that big.
All this problem needs is MORE MONEY and MORE TEACHERS. /s
Urban public schools are just a gang-ridden hot lunch program with diversity and self-esteem classes. Thanks neverdem.
Vouchers. How long with the government schools experiment be allowed to continue?
How many children do we need to lose?
It’s been a near century of failure.
Let the market work and let parents be parents.
In loco parentis is loco.