Quote:Ivy, yea I don't entirely understand why so much effort is put into passing what should be a basic test with a reasonable standard.
Because you get what you measure. BTW, there have also been a couple of cheating scandals where teachers/administrators were giving kids the answers to these tests. The whole thing is a gigantic, bureaucratic, clusterfuck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Pub...ng_scandal