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here is a link to the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/magazine/26tough.html?ei=5088&en=365daca642ddcb2f&ex=1322197200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

kate :)



Sharon Hamer wrote:

>There was an article in the New York Times magazine section last Sunday (11/26) by 
>Paul Tough called "What it takes to make a student". I urge all of you to read 
>that (its available through many magazine databases).
>
>I had no idea about one aspect of No Child. States are allowed to set the 
>standards for what proficient means in the standardized state testing, and they 
>are lowering those standards drastically in order to have more students qualify as 
>proficient. Here is a quote:
>
>"The most malignant element of the original law was that it required all states to 
>achieve proficiency but then allowed each state to define proficiency for itself. 
>It took state governments a couple of years to realize just what that meant, but 
>now they have caught on--and many of them are engaged in an ignoble competition to 
>see which state can demand the least of its students. At the head of this pack 
>right now is Mississippi, which has declared 89 percent of its fourth-grade 
>students to be proficient readers, the highest percentage, while in fact, the 
>National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that only 18 percent of 
>Mississippi fourth graders know how to read at an appropriate level--the second 
>lowest score of any state. In the past year, Arizona, Maryland, Ohio, North 
>Dakota, and Idaho all followed Mississippi's lead and slashed their standards to 
>label uneducated students educated."
>
>You don't need to respond to me, but please make this known in your communities.
>
>Sharon Hamer
>Librarian
>Hyde School
>Woodstock, Ct. 06281
>860-963-4726
>
>
>HYDE  
>Preparation for Life
>
>
>
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Kate Gallion
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