Fwd: the word spreads, the CSAP plot sickens

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

From our allies in Colorado.

Susan

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  From: "dperl" <dperl@myexcel.com>

  Date: Mon Mar 3, 2008 6:10:43 AM US/Pacific

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  Cc: <susanharman@igc.org>

  Subject: the word spreads, the CSAP plot sickens

  Dear Colleagues and hermanos de confianza,

  This morning I received a letter from educator Susan Harman of California. 
  She and her colleagues are also running an opt out campaign on the west
  coast.  Their website is

  www.calcare.orgArial.  So, take a look.  Some of the links are not yet
  working, but should be by the end of this week.  We are indeed all in this
  together.  Susan asked about our bus benches and bill boards, and wanted to
  know where they were, and how much they cost.  California is soo big, she
  said, it is hard to know where to target. 

  And speaking of bill boards, one of them is still up on Eighth Avenue here in
  beautiful downtown Greeley, and still no word from the press.  You could
  still call the Greeley Tribune at 970 -352-0211 and ask editor Randy Bangert
  the pertinent question:  Why has the Tribune remained silent about the
  negative impact of CSAP and parental rights in the face of the testing
  regimen?  See if he calls you back.

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  A defect in the CSAP testing booklet has come to the attention of
  "revolutionary headquarters" here this morning.  I will pass the information
  along with someone's editorial comment:  - If you purchased a pair of slacks
  that were defective, wouldn't you return those slacks and be provided a
  refund?  All you would need would be a receipt.  I think the Colorado
  Department of Education could come up with a receipt for the 23 million
  dollars spent for the defective test.  What do you think?  Here's the
  message:

  Dear SALs:

   CDE and CTB have recently informed us that there is an erroneously placed
  STOP sign on page 9, Session 2 Writing, of the CSAP Grade 7 READING/WRITING
  test booklet. Please share this information with your test proctors so that
  they know that when administering this session of the 7th grade writing exam
  they should remind students to ignore this particular STOP sign and continue
  working through page 15 (the next valid STOP sign). We understand that this
  is not ideal but there wasn’t a way to get a different version of the 7th
  grade Reading/Writing to districts before CSAP starts.

   Thanks,

   Talonna Arakawa

   Assessment and Research

   Denver Public Schools

  720.423.3827

   Talonna_Arakawa@dpsk12.org

  Enough for today.

  In solidarity,

  Don

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