RTTT: Testing Companies "Streamline" Scoring, Oversight
First, the NY Post told of an “outraged Brooklyn teacher” who turned whistle blower after being hired to score open-ended student responses on the New York state math test (NY passes students who get wrong answers on tests). That teacher was aghast to discover students were being given credit for partial or incorrect answers. In other words, wrong answers were being credited for being sorta’ right. Those scores were recorded and counted towards the students’ final test results.
Pictures: Boy Disappears After Science Project
The last time anyone saw 7 year-old Kyron Horman, he was walking down the hall of his Portland, Oregon
AM News: Graduation Day
Education" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/politics/08obama.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">Obama Gives Students a Principle to Guide Them NYT: Speaking at Kalamazoo Central High School, President Obama offered a theme of personal responsibility... Harry Reid lays out huge Senate agenda Politico: Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) laid out an daunting summer agenda for the Senate on Monday afternoon... Pushing a Liberal Agenda, With Democrats as Target NYT: Liberals say the president has prematurely encouraged the Democratic deficit hawks in Congress by his own anti-deficit rhetoric... 32 Detroit schools expected to close this year AP: The financial manager for Detroit's public schools says he will close 32 schools this year as part of his plan to address declining enrollment and reduce the district's deficit... The gowns are green — at least philosophically LA Times: Animo Venice Charter High School is among a number of campuses that are adopting environmentally friendly graduation garb made from either renewable wood fibers or recycled plastic bottles.