Re: [FCARFORUM] FCAT Scoring in Temps' Hands

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Discussion about appropriate testing formats is clearly relevant to 
this purposes defined for this list.

Transparent and repeated use of the resources of a 501(c)(3) 
organization for political proselytizing, under the facade of 
interjecting the word "testing," are not and violate IRS regulations 
for such institutions. No wonder FairTest is losing support. Who would 
want to sponsor such lunacy?

Art

>>> QCao009@aol.com 03/12/06 12:56 PM >>>

In a message dated 3/12/2006 12:47:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
bobschaeffer@earthlink.net writes:

But testing giant CTB/McGraw-Hill, which scores the FCAT, said graders

don't need an education background.

"Our rigorous training program provides college graduates in any
discipline with the skills needed to score the tests," spokeswoman
Kelley Carpenter wrote in an e-mail. She said that hiring permanent
graders is impossible because the work exists for only a few months of

the year.



Bob:

Next thing we know, our testing companies will be telling us we don't
need
"intelligent" leaders who can "read", just people who can "read" a
teleprompter
from a script in very large print !!! Reminds me of a certain
President
who walks into a closet door in China. May be he just thought he could
move a
Chinese wall- not to be confused with the Great Wall of China - by the
power
of his "faith". And here I thought the Most Rev Pat Robertson told us
"God
didn't create no dummies" !!!

No wonder polticians do not need to take the test they are subjecting
kids
to. It's good to be afraid when you are using fear as a tool.


Quan
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