FinnBow: Welcome back to Road Warrior country from Sound of Music country...
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That said, the age old adage "what gets measured gets managed" is the obvious source of the problems with the ridiculous "No Child" law. Whoever thought that schools wouldn't simply "teach to the test" or outright cheat are simply nuts.
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Nobody can argue that those tests are difficult. Nobody can argue that they don't represent the very MINIMUM expectations. We THOUGHT those dismal results were rising. Now we have reason to doubt that.
There is LESS chance of cooking the books with the NAEP test. It is the ONLY useful tool I've EVER seen come out of the Dept of Ed. Take a look for yourself...
http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ush...y_2010_report/
http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mat...#tabsContainer
8th Grade math --- (I aced the sample test). Anyone want to do History?
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Marty has 6 red pencils, 4 green pencils, and 5 blue pencils. If he picks out one pencil without looking, what is the probability that the pencil he picks will be green?
A. 1 out of 3
B. 1 out of 4
C. 1 out of 15
D. 4 out of 15
Megan drew a rectangle that has an area of 24 square centimeters. Which of the following could be the dimensions of her rectangle?
A. 2 centimeters by 12 centimeters
B. 3 centimeters by 9 centimeters
C. 4 centimeters by 20 centimeters
D. 6 centimeters by 6 centimeters
E.12 centimeters by 12 centimeters
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Well reported results. A correct way to measure academic achievement. And the alternate to "measuring" is ________ FinnBow?
What are we so afraid of when you "teach to the test"? That they might miss some multicultural, politically correct indoctrination? And how can we trust the whole enterprise when
we expect (as you implied) that teachers/admins "would outright cheat"? Justified because Bush signed it? Or Teddy Kennedy wrote it? They were cooking test scores BEFORE THE NAEP test or NCLB...
The system is completely f'd up. Structurally rotten to the core. And parents that do care- like the mom in that YouTube link are angry beyond belief..