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	<title>Comments on: Adding Up the Math Scores</title>
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		<title>By: Dee Alpert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dee Alpert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There have been so many audits and reports re the highly questionable scoring of State-mandated exams that it&#039;s hard to understand why anyone would bother publicizing them so heavily.  Since the tests which the schools do not themselves grade in NYS - SATs; ACTs; NAEP - show minor improvement in NYS and NYC kids&#039; scores, at best ... .  

When and if State Ed. ever (over its dead body, of course) releases all the reports it receives from outside regrading &quot;audits&quot; - then and only then should we worry about whether gaps are decreasing and if NYC scores mean that kids are learning more.

Till then ... it&#039;s only appropriate to assume that once again, the first casualty is ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There have been so many audits and reports re the highly questionable scoring of State-mandated exams that it&#8217;s hard to understand why anyone would bother publicizing them so heavily.  Since the tests which the schools do not themselves grade in NYS &#8211; SATs; ACTs; NAEP &#8211; show minor improvement in NYS and NYC kids&#8217; scores, at best &#8230; .  </p>
<p>When and if State Ed. ever (over its dead body, of course) releases all the reports it receives from outside regrading &#8220;audits&#8221; &#8211; then and only then should we worry about whether gaps are decreasing and if NYC scores mean that kids are learning more.</p>
<p>Till then &#8230; it&#8217;s only appropriate to assume that once again, the first casualty is &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Jennifer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How is the &quot;so called achievement gap&quot; being narrowed?  If more students are being test prepped into crossing the threshold from level 2 into level 3, what does that do to the score distribution on the upper end (level 4)? How many of the allegedly level 3 students are actually on the low end, and how do their scores compare to their scores on national exams?  To many, it looks like the actual scores haven&#039;t changed all that much, just how they&#039;re being categorized.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How is the &#8220;so called achievement gap&#8221; being narrowed?  If more students are being test prepped into crossing the threshold from level 2 into level 3, what does that do to the score distribution on the upper end (level 4)? How many of the allegedly level 3 students are actually on the low end, and how do their scores compare to their scores on national exams?  To many, it looks like the actual scores haven&#8217;t changed all that much, just how they&#8217;re being categorized.</p>
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