Re: Why 10th grade test?

[Arthur Hu <ArthurH@TANGIS.COM>]

that's an extra feature. If this were to faithfully
follow the European method, we would either stop
high school at grade 10, or make it a grade 12 test.


-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn [mailto:glenn@PEEDEEWORLD.NET]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:28 PM
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Subject: Re: Why 10th grade test?


I always was told they start giving them in the 10th grade so the kids can
have numerous chances to tate and retake the test before graduation.

Teresa Glenn

> They're not "set" for 10th grade, that's just when they are first given.
>
> Deb
>
> Nobody knows the real reason why all these exit exams are
> >set at the 10th grade..
> >
> >It's because in Marc Tucker's classic 1989 "America's Choice,
> >High Skills or Low wages" (www.ncee.org)
> >
> >http://www.ncee.org/OurProducts/reports.html
> >
> >which is the blueprint
> >for school to work and standards based education, the idea was
> >to award a 10th grade Certificate of Mastery, roughly modeled
> >after the German system where the middle tier graduates to go
> >on to a vocational apprenticeship after 10th grade.

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