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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: More intersting revelations from EdTrust
In a message dated 1/7/02 11:53:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, aburke@VANSD.ORG writes: > Would .20-.30 be ones that only a few get right and .70-.80 ones that lots > get right of vice-versa? > I learn so much when I attend A+ meetings, I don't know why I don't go more often, she smirked. Our commissioners will be getting graduate level education in assessment from a course offered at University of Washington-- then I guess they'll be able to interpret the ed trust findings. The thing of it is is the Ed Trust and the Business Roundtable and New Schools and others all dabble in education. They set up their little magnet schools and attract the parents who's kids would succeed wherever they were placed, because the parent support is there, and they tout it to the rest of us living in the real educational world of overcrowding and failing levies and bonds etc.... They encourage jargon and multitudinal data collections, which turn parents off and overtax teachers. The mish mash of rhetoric between "just the basics ma'am" Bush and "College begins in Kindergarten" Ed Trust is mind boggling! All day kindergarten-- Shirley McCune was touting ALL DAY KINDERGARTEN -- I shudder! There's a "Toddler University" down the street. Now that's speed up! I'll try to quit now, and go visit my mom for a while. Juanita
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