Re: the plot thickens

[Art Burke <aburke@VANSD.ORG>]

Perhaps the reality is that they are telling you what they think you want to hear.  Art

>>> Wcala@SERVTECH.COM 09/25 12:42 PM >>>
This statement is not based in reality.  I speak to children daily. The
tests have been given such incredible weight that children DO feel
substandard when they don't meet the arbitrary and capricious passing cut
scores.

BC
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From: "Art Burke" <aburke@VANSD.ORG>
To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: the plot thickens


>>> Jedoyon@AOL.COM 09/25 9:19 AM >>>
In a message dated 9/25/01 8:47:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
aburke@VANSD.ORG 
writes:

Isn't it just a little heartless that nobody seems to think there is a
problem with a goal that still tells 70% of the kids they're substandard?
What exactly is a standard child?  Thank God, nobody will ever know for
sure.
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No child should be defeated by school.  I think even the most ardent
proponents of standards-based accountability believe that.

Passing the test does not make a child "standard."  And not passing the test
does not make a child "substandard."   The real message when a child does
not meet standard should be, "We have more work to do."

Art

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