Re: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education

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Each state gets to set there own standards. Then the schools
compete, COmparisons of AYP naturally follow. What a bunch of
Bll! Since states set their own standards there is a huge
difference between the toughest and the easiest states.

In one state you have 70 percent pass rate, but only about 25%
passing a national test, while in a state with a high standards
you have 70% pass rate on the national test, but only 25% pass
rate on their NCLB tests for AYP.

Once organization started comparing AYP rates to how well states
did on nationally normed tests, it became obvious the huge
discrepencies between the highest and lowest standards.

Unfortuatately I can see a move toward national standards because
some states made a joke of their standards and other states the
bar was set too high.

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