Whoa, Seven in Ten Florida School Students Are Illiterate!
by jonpelto
Oh, no wait, it’s going to be okay after all. Florida’s Board of Education held an emergency meeting last week to “lower the passing grade” on the state’s standardized mastery tests because far too many students where failing.
The good news is that seven in ten Florida school students aren’t illiterate after all.
State officials explained that by increasing a passing grade from 3.5 to 4 on scale of zero to 6 and adopting higher expectations for punctuation, capitalization, spelling and sentence structure, the test was now “too hard.”
Known as FCAT 2.0, Florida’s standardized test was developed by NCS Pearson, Inc., the “leading and most innovative provider of assessment and education data management services in the world. The England based Pearson corporate conglomerate includes Pearson PLC, NCS Pearson Inc., Edexel, Pearson Langauge Testing, Pearson VUE, the