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	<title>Comments on: Test Score Fallout</title>
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		<title>By: Peter Meyer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Meyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;What a difference a new set of data makes.&quot;

Are you kidding?  This is NOT a new set of data. Nor is it some kind of post hoc facto justification of Diane Ravitch&#039;s criticisms of Bloomberg et al.

State Ed simply admitted what many of us knew: it was dumbing down state test score results (i.e. the proficiency standard).

That&#039;s neither a pox on Bloomberg nor a reason to dismiss tests as benchmarks of knowledge.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;What a difference a new set of data makes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you kidding?  This is NOT a new set of data. Nor is it some kind of post hoc facto justification of Diane Ravitch&#8217;s criticisms of Bloomberg et al.</p>
<p>State Ed simply admitted what many of us knew: it was dumbing down state test score results (i.e. the proficiency standard).</p>
<p>That&#8217;s neither a pox on Bloomberg nor a reason to dismiss tests as benchmarks of knowledge.</p>
<p>&#8211;pm</p>
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		<title>By: Gail Robinson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gail Robinson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why do people who support the mayor&#039;s policies, as I assume Mr. Korngold does, try to portray others as not caring about kids. As far as I know, Gotham Gazette has never said Bloomberg, Klein or their supporters don&#039;t care about kids.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do people who support the mayor&#8217;s policies, as I assume Mr. Korngold does, try to portray others as not caring about kids. As far as I know, Gotham Gazette has never said Bloomberg, Klein or their supporters don&#8217;t care about kids.</p>
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		<title>By: Martin Krongold</title>
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		<dc:creator>Martin Krongold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As usual, Gotham is a worrier and just too one-sided.  Everyone knew results were inflated, but an inflation-adjusted 2009 to 2006 comparison suggests improvement is slow, but gradually upward.  NAEP improvement is even slower, (flat or upward)and consistently accelerated over the rest of the state.  Will be interesting to determine whether HS grad rates were artificially increased due to higher Regents pass rates.  Please continue your unbalanced policy analysis so those who only care about kids, not politics, can focus on balanced truth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As usual, Gotham is a worrier and just too one-sided.  Everyone knew results were inflated, but an inflation-adjusted 2009 to 2006 comparison suggests improvement is slow, but gradually upward.  NAEP improvement is even slower, (flat or upward)and consistently accelerated over the rest of the state.  Will be interesting to determine whether HS grad rates were artificially increased due to higher Regents pass rates.  Please continue your unbalanced policy analysis so those who only care about kids, not politics, can focus on balanced truth.</p>
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