Re: NCLB help!!!!

[Rick Parkany <rparkany@BORG.COM>]

Well...let's put it this way, Folks:    NEW??!!

The *test* a state adminsters in order to tie into LNCB will HAVE to be *scientific*

  ;-\

According to recent posts this list wrt USDoE and other Fed'l agencys' *ideologic cleansing*
(including ethnic media) of WEB sites,
AND
the reader's list for USDoE grants & RFP/NOFAs (Request for Proposals & Notification of Funding) I
sent along a few weeks ago by Prof. Judith Priessle,
AND
the stated ground rules barring anything that is NOT in line w/*adminstrative thinking* is not to be
considered to be *available* on Fed'l sites,
AND
the present *resources* available on the USDoE are present in MUCH diminished capacity * form over
the past year (I only compare my own *mirrored* copies and the *BushII*, Shrub WEB presence. Check
your own materials and see for yourself!

...WhaddyYaTHINK is going to *pass*, Juanita? pretty slim pickin's this side of high *reliability
numbers* (read normalized MC testing w/heavy-duty item analysis, the BANE of most members, this
list) and *alignment to standards*--regardless of the fact that most of the standards are not
*covered* by the test, regardless of whose you use
AND
the correlative fact that the VALIDITY of these instruments are HIGHLY suspect, accordingly...

...in other words: the solution is *political*, if it were *rational* we'd have solved it by now
w/the *empirical evidence* presently available with the consideration of *sound minds;

but don't forget: this mindstorm of legislation, LNCB: the Transmogrification of Title I programing!

We went WAY past *reform*, even *transformation* on this one, Folks! This *transmogrification* of
*remedial aid* (aka Title I) is the product of Bubbaism, the past administration having paved the
way for this psychosis in accountability scams...

NEW??!! :-} rap.

Jedoyon@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a good enough handle on NCLB to confirm, refute, or expound on these statements?
> I have a teacher on my list who is trying to write a column including the idea that we could scrap
> WASL and use better means to fulfill NCLB.
>
> from the Spokesman-Review:
> "Current state testing forms the baseline by
> which improvement must be measured."
>
> from the teacher:
> "I was under the impression that we were not required by the federal mandate to
> continue using the WASL; i.e., other tests could be used to show the required
> improvement."
>
> Thanks,
> Juanita
>
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