New Educational Standards

[tantric_chef]

In response to President Bush's federal "No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB), it is proposed that students will have to pass a test to be promoted to the next grade level. In the hope that this proposal will be uniformly adopted by all of the states, the new test will be called the Federal Arithmetic and Reading Test, or FART. All students who cannot

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[kitten_goddess]

*LOL*

Where did you get this???

[tantric_chef]

Rea sent it to me this morning.

[elnigma]

When a kid reaches middle or high school and is incompetent- how is it that nobody ever in their entire school career so far ever had the kid *demonstrate* they could read? Kids can learn to fill in circles but not learn to read. So the Republicans push for more "filling in blank circles" tests (costing millions) to make average test scores for schools rather than putting something to making sure kids can read and do math.

Though I've heard there are First grade teachers who complain if their kids can't read or do basic math.. rather than teaching *how* to them. effers. Yet although I think that type of person shouldn't be teaching, I can see how they feel, there's not enough teaching teachers, parents, day care workers, and volunteers how to help kids learn those things, there are techniques the brilliant teachers have that they themselves were often taught, and they should become more public knowledge. I would like it if those millions spent on new fill in the blank tests were given out instead on such courses.