Re: Test-Prep Triage Documented

[Diane Aoki <dkeikoa@hawaii.rr.com>]

Just saw a typo at the end, Perhaps visit the teachers who predict that
their STUDENTS are not going to make it ....


On 3/4/07 3:15 PM, "Diane Aoki" <dkeikoa@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

> Isn't it amazing that we can feel the same kind of responses to NCLB across
> the Pacific in HI. It was not as extreme, and presented in a gentler manner,
> but we were told right after winter break, that we needed to identify in our
> minds the kids in their subgroups, and be able to tell if they were going to
> pass or not. And then we were to focus our efforts on them so that we did
> make those percentages. We had tutoring available for after-school and were
> told these were for the "bubble" kids. My teaching partner defied that, and
> referred the low readers who had no chance of passing the state test. She
> got flack at first, but the principal allowed it. The math tutoring was
> strictly for the bubble kids though. A few weeks ago, we were told to turn
> in our percentages, the students in their disaggregated subgroups, by name,
> who were probably going to pass. I don't know what she's going to do with
> that data. Perhaps visit the teachers who predict that their teachers are
> not going to make it, and ask him/her what have they been doing, what can
> they do more? 
> Diane
> 
> On 3/4/07 3:36 AM, "Bob Schaeffer" <bobschaeffer@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> A CONCENTRATED APPROACH TO EXAMS:
>> 
>> ROCKVILLE SCHOOL'S EFFORTS RAISE QUESTIONS OF TEST-PREP ETHICS
>> Washington Post -- March 4, 2007
>> by Daniel de Vise
>> 
>> The principal of Earle B. Wood Middle School in Rockville gathered
>> teachers and handed out a list of all the black, Hispanic,
>> special-education and limited-English-speaking students who would take
>> the Maryland School Assessment, the measure of success or failure under
>> the federal No Child Left Behind mandate.
>> 
>> 
>> "
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