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-----Original Message----- From: sobrien@columbus.rr.com To: sobrien@columbus.rr.com; arn-l@interversity.org Sent: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 2:40 PM Subject: [arn-l] STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES400 SCHOOLS EARN BETTER GRADES IN CENTRAL OHIO STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES 400 SCHOOLS EARN BETTER GRADES IN CENTRAL OHIO Some districts credit data, high expectations for success in classroom Published: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 NEWS 01A By Jennifer Smith Richards THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH ... "It's a good year for public schools," said Michele Prater, spokeswoman for the Ohio Education Association, the state's largest teachers union. ..."There's no mystery in Ohio's education system anymore," said J.C. Benton, spokesman for the Education Department. ... "The high expectations we set worked," said Amy Buttke, principal at Great Western, which serves elementary students on the West Side. ... "We really believe that data can drive our instruction," said Janet Ritchey, principal of Searfoss Elementary ... "Our goal is to achieve excellence. We're not happy with being an 'effective' school," Ritchey said. ...But a critic of standardized testing said parents shouldn't rely on school ratings at all. "Given what we've seen in the gamesmanship that schools, districts and states feel forced to play because of the arbitrary and irrational rules of No Child Left Behind, there's all kinds of manipulation of those results so that they've lost whatever minimal meaning they had in the first place," said Robert Schaeffer, public-education director for the Cambridge, Mass.-based Center for Fair and Open Testing. _______________________________________ Right. Schaeffer knows Ohio's schools better than Ohio's teachers, principals. union officials, and ODOE officials. Honest to goodness, how absolutely off-the-wall can FairTest get? Art ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free.
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