CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEA ANTI-WASL ED MERCER ISLAND ANTI-WASL

[Arthur Hu <ArthurH@TANGIS.COM>]

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEA ANTI-WASL ED MERCER ISLAND ANTI-WASL
Arthur Hu's Education Deform / Diversity Update  
Posted 6/9/2000
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GATES TO FUND RHODES-LIKE SCHOLARSHIPS TO CAMBRIDGE (BUT NOT
HARVARD/MIT?)  z24\clip\2000\06\gatesch.txt BBC News Online Tuesday,
23 May, 2000 Gates to fund Cambridge scholarships Bill Gates:
Scholarships will rival Rhodes Foundation in Oxford Microsoft
chairman Bill Gates is to spend £130m on funding 230 scholarships to
Cambridge University.  The move will create the biggest international
scholarship scheme ever seen in Britain. The plan will create a rival
to Oxford University's Rhodes Scholarships.

ONLY 8% OF PROFESSORS CONSIDERED THEMSELVES TO BE CONSERVATIVE
z42\clip\2000\06\profaf.txt
http://www.acenet.edu/about/programs/access&equity/omhe/diversity-report/
diversity-report.pdf
http://chronicle.com/daily/2000/05/2000051801n.htm
Survey Finds Widespread Faculty Support for Racial and Ethnic Diversity
By PETER SCHMIDT, Chronicle of Higher Education
Politically, 10 percent of the respondents described themselves as "far
left," and 53 percent as liberal. Thirty percent identified themselves as
moderate, 7 percent as conservative, and less than 1 percent as "far
right."

z42\clipim\2000\06\01\boycott\boycott.htm
U.S. Department of Energy --------------------------5/31/2000
the Association for Asian American Studies, is objecting to the
treatment of Wen Ho Lee
"This kind of case touches a very raw nerve," said Stephen H. Sumida,
a professor of American ethnic studies at the University of
Washington in Seattle 

  (Asians are a growing force in U.S. science and technology.)
  "Asian Americans urged to boycott government labs."
  "Objecting to what it sees as racial discrimination, a national
organization of scholars and educators has formally called
upon Asian Americans to boycott federal nuclear laboratories
by not applying for jobs there."....
  ..."Because Asians and Asian Americans account for more
than a quarter of all doctorates awarded in science and tech-
nology by American universities each year, the effect on the
federal laboratories could be serious if young scientists
decided to heed the resolutions."
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/wed/news/news_1n31labs.html

Ousted gay doctor sues Pentagon over order to repay education costs.
Seattle Times June 1, 2000 100 Air Force members were discharged from
its medical training program between 1996 and July 1999 for being
gay, all have been asked to repay the money ($68,0000 for tuition +
$3,000 extras)

TEACHERS WITH LOW HS MATH SCORES WILL HAVE TO BE TESTED IN MASS
z42\clip\2000\06\masste.txt
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-20006222956.htm
Massachusetts teachers face competency tests 
By Andrea Billups
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

     Math teachers in Massachusetts may soon have to prove they can
practice what they teach.

ONE HIGH STANDARD FOR ALL CAN'T POSSIBLY WORK
z42\clip\2000\06\socprom.txt
http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue379/item9537.asp Let
Social Promotion Out of the Closet by Jerry Jesness Thursday, June
01, 2000 Comments: 33 posts "Any test that is so simple that all
students could be expected to fit within the 70% to 100% range is too
simple to drive the curriculum of a good school. A demanding gateway
test, on the other hand, is likely not to survive backlash from
students and parents.  "

PRIVATE CHARITY SHOULD SUPPORT CATHOLIC SEATTLE SCHOOLS
Paul T Hill SeaPI June 4, 2000 A loss too great to bear No legal
barriers prevent private funders from helpinmg Catholic schools teach
poor children Seattle's 7 south end schools 61% minority. National
Afam 2x likely to go to college from comparable families. Seattle
oversees 63 schools 17,000 students vs Seattle PS 500 staff 100
schools 48,000 students. Paul T Hill It takes a city by Brookings
Institution Evans school public affairs u wash. Says private could
help pay for WASL so they can meet state standards. (bad)

NY WILL REQUIRE ALL TO PASS 5 REGENTS EXAMS TO GET DIPLOMA
z42\clip\2000\06\regny.txt June 2000 Observer Dispatch Utica
http://www.uticaod.com/statenews/statenews.htm Higher standards led
to tougher Regents tests By ANNY KUO The Associated Press The
department is phasing in the passage of one new Regents exam each
year as a requirement for graduation.  Seniors who entered high
school in 1996 are the first subjected to the new mandates: They must
pass the English Regents examination with at least a score of 55
percent to receive their diplomas this month.  ...will have to pass
five separate exams - in English, math, global history and geography,
U.S.  history and a science - to graduate in 2003.  And by 2005, the
two-tiered diploma system - a local diploma for a score higher than
55 and a Regents diploma for a score higher than 65 - will be
eliminated. 

z42\clipim\2000\06\06\calchar.efx Wall Street Journal Defying
Convention, Superintendent Takes A Chance on Charters Mr. Shalvey
envisions chain of schools to shake up the system in California.
Angels from Silicon Vallye June Kronholz April 11, 2000

<a href="../2000/06/testca.txt">6/5/2000 George Sheridan</a> Testing
is "out of control" in California, California Teachers Association
President Wayne Johnson told CTA's State Council Saturday, June 3.
CTA's legislative advocates will be instructed to work for suspension
of the standardized test (SAT-9) and STAR augmentation until the
system is redesigned to reduce the number of tests and to ensure that
the tests are valid (that is, that they are testing the curriculum we
are teaching).

MERCER ISLAND WASL BITCH SESSION
>From Blomstrom: Testing Complaints Seminar It's about time! June 1
2000 The Seattle Education Association and the Seattle Area
Rethinking Schools Group are sponsoring "An Open Forum for Educators
on the Impact of Testing" at Mercer Middle School. Panelists include
Peter Sacks (journalis and author of Standardized Minds: The High
Price of America's Testing Culture), Carolyn Busch, Executive Policy
Advisor for Governor Gary Locke, and Bob Howard (Professor, Dept. of
Education, University of Washington). The panel presentation will be
followed by a small group discussion.

EXTENDED DAYCARE AS TEST PREP z42\clip\2000\06\daytest.txt School,
Day Care To Open Together By Brooke A. Masters Washington Post Staff
Writer Thursday , June 1, 2000 ; V01 As concern grows that Alexandria
elementary students need more supervision and educational
opportunities, the city and its public schools have announced plans
to open a before- and after-school child-care center that might
eventually serve as a model for the city. City and school officials
also said they were concerned that many Alexandria students might
need help passing the state-mandated Standards of Learning tests.


PRINCE GEORGE PAPER RAPS MSPAP STATE HIGH STAKES TEST
z42\clip\2000\06\msp.txt editorial from Prince George's Journal
Newspaper, Opinion page Editor.  6/7/00 A lesson learned?  Many refer
to MSPAP as a standardized test, but that's really a misnomer.
Because of its heavy emphasis on writing, MSPAP scoring is inherently
subjective. Teachers have also long complained MSPAP questions are
often just too difficult for the grade level being assessed. The same
goes for the math portion, with its heavy emphasis on probability, as
opposed to calculations. For instance, a third-grade MSPAP math
question showed several circles cut into different portions of
varying sizes, asking which one was ``fair," meaning equally divided.
Is this really an appropriate question for kids still struggling to
learn their multiplication facts? Not surprisingly, not a single
child in that class got the answer right.

Boston Globe 
MCAS history test is not only silly, it's racist 
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist, 6/7/2000 
The difference between a diploma and doomsday cannot possibly come down to
a byzantine trivial pursuit. That is, unless you can make the implausible
case that six or seven years from now, when these students are trembling
job applicants, that their bosses will look them dead in the eye and
actually ask:

GazetteNet
Cellucci challenged to try MCAS
Tuesday, June 6, 2000 -- (BOSTON AP) - About 25 students staked out Gov.
Paul Cellucci's office Monday to deliver hundreds of letters from students
who oppose the test, and to challenge Cellucci to take the test himself. 

TEEN SEX DOWN 5% TO 50% SINCE 1991
z42\clip\2000\07\teendrug.txt June 09, 2000 Seattle Times Teen drug
use, smoking on rise; risky sex down, report says Cocaine, marijuana
and cigarette use among high-school students increased during the
1990s, according to a government survey that also says fewer teens
are having sex and those who do are more likely to use condoms. 

fewer high-school students said they have had sex, a trend that
gradually decreased from 54.1 percent in 1991 to 49.9 percent in
1999. 

WEA PUBLISHES SEATIMES PIECE CRITICAL OF WASL
WEA journal June issue - there is p. 18 teacher that is very critical
of the WASL 4th grade from Vancouver. This appears to be the same
article that was published in the Seattle Times.
times article)

LAKE WASH BOARD ADOPTS OBE GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS DESPITE PROTESTS
Redmond WA June 5, 2000 Parents including Arthur Hu, Ann Cronin,
Julanne Burts, Sandy Elliot lined up to condemn the imminent adoption
of the "performance based" (which they insist is not the same as OBE)
graduation requirements. Of course, it was delayed to the end after
the cute show and tell presentations and awards so nobody else was
around to see it.  They require a laundry list of documents and
projects, including senior project, school to work assignment and
community service, on top of WASL test to get one of 3 levels of
diploma, with the highest requiring passing several AP tests. I
mentioned that no college or employer is requiring any of this, and
this isn't because a bunch of angry parents demanded it, instead the
angry parents are demanding that they not do this, and I warned that
Littleton Colorado parents threw out the school board over a similar
policy. Sandy said she would be among the first to call for a recall
of the board. Other parents said they attended the meetings but felt
that no parent input mattered. The board said that plenty of people
supported it, it was about time that the "ship did it's turn" since
Elizabeth Dole came out with the SCANS report, we don't expect
companies to work the same way as they did 30 years ago, and the STW
wasn't the same as tracking students into specific jobs like they do
in Germany. So we'll all have to wait for the train wreck before we
can drive out the rascals. It's all too common for a bunch of
disgruntled parents or teachers to show up over an issue that the
board will just totally ignore and go ahead anyways.

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