Re: State requires a tougher test for high school seniors who flunk High School Proficiency Assessment
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The HSPA is an 8th grade skills battery that students get three chances to take before they take the AHSA. You can pass the HSPA by only answering 50% of the questions correctly.
The AHSA gives students three MORE times to get a diploma. The students who are still in the "lurch" have had five chances to demonstrate proficiency, and still have not done so. There's nothing wrong with the test. The test is the messenger and people want to shoot the messenger because they don't like what's being said: that we're passing thousands of kids through high school every year who cannot pass a middle-school level test. But we want to give them diplomas anyway.
Posted on: 2010/7/9 23:33
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Re: Jersey City Superintendent of Schools Charles T. Epps Jr. $300.000.00/year
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What's frustrating is that, for one moment, someone would describe the tenure of Dr. Epps as a successful one. The grains of sand of excellence (McNair, which is rightly a great school) are on a beach of failure, and in no way excuse what is clearly a bloated, largely ineffective bureaucracy. It's so obvious that "kids" are at the bottom of the list of priorities and "adults" are at the top that it would be laughable if it were not so tragic.
Ask yourself this: why does Dr. Epps make more for approximately 30,000 students than Chancellor Joel Klein, a real paradigm breaker, makes for approximately 1.2 million?
I find this saddest of all though:
Echoing Tayari, she hinted that race might be a factor behind the move for a national search.
?There is a rumor floating around, Mr. Valentin, about who you are looking to fill the superintendent position,? Miller said. ?And guess what? That person does not look like me.?
Our kids are waiting for Superman...they don't care what color he is.
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Posted on: 2010/7/6 22:48
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