Re: More on Public Agenda's Public Fraud

[Bob Schaeffer <bobschaeffer@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Yes, but Education Week was either duped by Public Agenda's news release
spin or a co-conspirator in the attempted fraud (Ed. Week cosponsored
the survey) by printing a news story which concludes the first paragraph
with the following sentence:
  "This year, despite some headlines trumpeting a "backlash to testing,"
Reality Check shows strong agreement on the useful role standardized
tests can play, and a broad consensus on how they should be used"
   This statement is true only if one admits the "consensus" is
standardized tests should not be used for high-stakes.


George Sheridan wrote:
>
> Bob:
>
> This is an important finding:
>
> The Education Week news story <
> http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=25realitycheck.h21 > on the
> latest Public Agenda opinion poll (AKA "Reality Check 2002") shows
> that majorities in all groups agree that a student's graduation or
> promotion should not hang on one test. Very large majorities of
> parents (75 percent), teachers (89 percent), employers (81 percent),
> and professors (83 percent) say it would be "wrong to use the results
> of just one test to decide whether a student gets promoted or
> graduates."
>
> George Sheridan
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> Hope is ... not the conviction that something will turn out well, but
> the
> certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
>
>                                                 Vaclav Havel
>
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