| Learing the lessons of failed student testing |
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The Oregonian
11.30.04
A s a professional in the field of educational testing, I have reached the end of my rope when it comes to the obsession we have with standardized testing in our schools.
I'm not opposed to this testing if it's used correctly, but we've reached new levels of absurdity. We have been carrying out this obsessive testing ritual at several levels over the decades: ranking states on SAT scores, statewide tests, national assessments, international assessments, all... |
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| Home-schoolers may face new standardized test |
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MSNBC.com
A state plan to crack down on school districts that receive money for home schooling could require hundreds of students to take a standardized test.BEND, Ore. (AP) -
The Oregon Department of Education policy change will require home-schooled students to take the Oregon Statewide Assessment test if they receive tutoring or take special classes in reading and literature, math or science that are paid for by public schools.
Children schooled at home already must take a... |
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| State seeks to blend school reforms |
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Stateman Journal
Oregon wants a single measure of school progress to avoid confusion
BY JULIA SILVERMAN The Associated Press
November 26, 2004
PORTLAND -- For the second time in as many years, Oregon education officials plan to seek changes in how the Bush administration's centerpiece education law affects the state's schools.
Oregon officials tried in 2003 to petition for more flexibility of the act, called No Child Left Behind. But they got nowhere w... |
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| Schools stumped over contradictory testing regulations |
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San Antonio Express-News
11/21/2004
By LIZ AUSTIN / Associated Press
State and federal laws on how to test special education students are on a collision course in Texas, stumping school leaders who must meet contradictory demands and parents who want to know how well schools are performing.
About 9 percent of the nearly 2.9 million Texas children in the third through eleventh grades were given an alternate test to the more rigorous Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, k... |
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| Schools are put to the test... and fail |
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Bennington Banner
11.18.04
Tests are a way of life. From the tryout on the athletic field to every U.S. K-12 classroom to the SSATs and GREs for college and post-graduate degrees, people are tested every day. Musicians, artists and actors audition and show portfolios and employees are expected to meet performance goals to keep their jobs, get raises and get promoted.
The Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union - Vermont's largest school district - once again earned the alarming honor of ... |
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| National Math Test Too Easy, Study Says |
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KMGH-TV ABC 7 Denver
11.18.04
WASHINGTON -- The national test of student math skills is filled with easy questions, raising doubts about recent gains in achievement tests, a study contends.
On the eighth-grade version of the test, almost 40 percent of the questions address skills taught in first or second grade, according to the report by Tom Loveless, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at The Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
The test for fou... |
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