The state's head of public school testing has been named to a committee that will weigh in on the next version of the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Lou Fabrizio, director of accountability policy and communications at the state Department of Public Instruction, is on a national task force that will present ideas to Congress in September as it rewrites the law on school accountability, reports Lynn Bonner.
The task force was appointed by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Well greenswamp, it's called education for a reason. I remember what I learned in all of the 8th grade and could easily pass a test on it today, even though it's been 24 years.
And is it a good idea to have a guy on the committee to write this law who's entire salary is justified by there being LOTS of testing?
Spend, no result, spend, no result, spend, no result. Just print more money and throw at the system and not look at the real problem. Can you speak Chinese, you might want to learn. They are going to want their money they have invested in the USA. I wonder if they will take all the uneducated, no care attitude, give me something free members of our society who are users and produce nothing? Sorry, they produce more kids to add to this cycle that will end someday, when we have to speak Chinese.
If we are going to stay with standardized testing, why can't we have a smaller test at the end of every nine weeks instead of that excruciating EOG. That way the kids who did not understand the material in the nine week period could have tutoring and catch up and take the test again in a few weeks. How can a child remember completely in May what he/she learned in September or October? Especially a child that has struggled the entire year.
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I am not really for all the testing and truthfully, I would like to see NCLB in the trash can. But it looks like that is not going to happen. I only know that at my children's school, the last nine weeks is almost totally spent on review of the first three. It just seems that a more specific test at the end of each nine weeks would close each segment and the kids could be covering new ground during the last nine. Once they learn something they will retain it. Identify the one's that don't understand early and fix it. It seems that this would bring more successes. After all, success is what we're after isn't it?