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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Testing "Experts"

Jersey Jazzman: Testing "Experts":

Testing "Experts"

Leonie Haimson points us to this report on the New York Regents Exam:
The state is finally cracking down on the practice of teachers grading their own students’ standardized tests. The state Board of Regents, the supreme authority in education, will not permit this practice to continue beginning in the 2012-13 school year.
One can’t help wondering: What took them so long?
Audits by the state comptroller for the last two decades have shown, The New York Times points out, that schools give better grades to their own students on state Regents exams than do teams