The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act

[Minimalist]

[Hammok Man]

Removing these students will not help.
More funding will not help the scores come up either.

The only thing that can do that is more parent interaction and involvement.

[Anomalocaris]

Removing these students will not help.
More funding will not help the scores come up either.

The only thing that can do that is more parent interaction and involvement.

Why? do confederate flag waving, trump voting Alabaman parents have more experience with "education" than their offsprings?

[The Valkyrie]

Can these people get any dumber?

Oh, wait, "Challenge Accepted!!".

[Minimalist]

Removing these students will not help.
More funding will not help the scores come up either.

The only thing that can do that is more parent interaction and involvement.

Not to mention less jesus.

[brewer]

Just help them cheat, it's the American way, right Florida!

[Jackie]

[Javaman]

Why oh why are people still so enamored of standardized testing? Why do people still believe such things are necessary to providing and guiding public education?

Standardized testing pretty much runs counter to what we know about educating children. Why does the media have such hard-on for the results of standardized testing?

Step 1 to improving public education: eliminate standardized testing. Then we can move forward.

[Jackie]

Why oh why are people still so enamored of standardized testing? Why do people still believe such things are necessary to providing and guiding public education?

Standardized testing pretty much runs counter to what we know about educating children. Why does the media have such hard-on for the results of standardized testing?

Step 1 to improving public education: eliminate standardized testing. Then we can move forward.

I agree, now while every child learns differently, I do know that I learned more when I wasn't under pressure to preform like a circus bear. Memorizing things short term isn't the same as actually understanding what you memorize. You retain information longer when you actually understand it instead of simply repeating it.

[Minimalist]

Why oh why are people still so enamored of standardized testing? Why do people still believe such things are necessary to providing and guiding public education?

I don't think I've welcomed you....must have missed your intro thread.

Anyway, its very simple.  People who don't know jack shit about education think that testing is good to show "progress."  Far too many school boards are dominated by such people.

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