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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:09:07 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote: "No child left behind" isn't perfect, but it's the first program in my lifetime that holds out any hope for fixing the utterly broken inner city schools -- which is what the program is really targeted at. Unfortunately, here in Vermont the smallish size of many of our schools causes them to be the "collateral damage", so to speak, of this program aimed at inner city schools. With small schools and small classes, students with learning disabilities have a disproportionately large affect on the test results. And guess what, they aren't going to improve much regardless how effective the teacher is, so the test results won't go up from test to test. Vermont is studded with small schools and pretty much all of them have learning disabled students. No dodging this one, the Feds say all students must be tested regardless their actual ability to learn. These schools are getting warnings that they are not in compliance with the standardized testing and there's little they can do to improve things, other than convince the parents of the learning disabled kids to move away from their district. So far the Feds are not aknowledging the impossibility of the situation or indicating understanding: do the testing, show improvement or loose funding. Corky Scott |
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