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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: More on Public Agenda's Public Fraud
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 4467 Meadowbrook Road Garden Valley, California 95633 (530) 333 4506 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 Are standardized tests hurting our kids? Go to www.fairtest.org
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