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    Re: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education
    Posted by competing for federal dollars on 8/03/08

    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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  • Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education, 7/25/08, by Lea.
  • Re: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education, 7/25/08, by Kim/AR/math.
  • Re: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education, 7/26/08, by Lea.
  • Re: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education, 8/03/08, by competing for federal dollars.

     
     

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