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Rise & Shine: New report to detail state’s low test standards

  • A forthcoming report details low standards on state tests. (PostNY1S.I. Advance)
  • Some are skeptical about the state’s will to raise standards. (GothamSchools)
  • Thieves stole laptop computers from PS 107 for the second time in a month. (Brooklyn Paper)
  • City teachers are among many getting kudos from former students on Facebook. (Times)
  • In D.C., scores are down at elementary schools but up at middle and high schools. (Washington Post)
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  1. [...] New York City papers today are reporting on an analysis done for the State Board of Regents as they prepare to discuss the cut scores at the beginning of next week.  Presumably the analysis will eventually be posted among the materials for the Regents July19, 20 meetings. [...]

  2. I wrote on incongressional.com about how states are dumbing down tests to make themselves look better.  How else would politicians who say “Judge me on the schools” get re-elected?

    The link has graphs from a study shown at a congressional hearing on the reauthorization of NCLB.

    http://www.incongressional.com/department-of-ed-race-to-the-bottom/

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