Extractions: The Mid-Continent Regional Education Laboratory (McRel) provides an extensive listing of content standards and benchmarks entitled, Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (On-line Version. Their Connctions+ section provides links to curriculum tools and other resources to assist teachers implementing standards. EDUCATION NEWS The Education Week site contains a wealth of information on education issues across the country. In addition to weekly features and articles, the site contains daily education-related news clips, searchable archives, background papers on key education topics, and facts, statistics, and articles on each state. Rethinking Schools Online: An Urban Education Journal
COMET - Vol. 2, No. 34 - 26 November 2001 The poor science results reflect the reality that many schools teach little or no Standardized tests Score High on Parent Anger by Darragh A. Johnson http://csmp.ucop.edu/cmp/comet/2001/11_26_2001.html
Extractions: story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia California leads the world in Nobel Prize winners and high-tech companies, but the state's students trail everyone else in science literacy, finishing dead last among 40 states in a nationwide examination...California's science results are similar to those obtained on tests of mathematics and reading proficiency released earlier: The state's elite students do very well, but the average is consistently among the lowest in the country. California's scores were similarly poor four years ago. That time, the only states whose students did worse than California's were Hawaii, Mississippi and Louisiana. This time, no state did worse than California among fourth-graders. Among eighth-graders, California was tied for last with Hawaii. In both cases, American Samoa, Guam and the Virgin Islands were worse than any state. State-by-state rankings were not prepared for high school seniors.
SOLs Keep Few From Graduating In N.Va. (washingtonpost.com) School Districts Credit Focused Teaching Effort In DC schools, graduationrequirements are not tied to standardized test scores. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35401-2004Aug2.html
Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com Education Virginia ... E-Mail This Article By Rosalind S. Helderman Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 3, 2004; Page B01 Fewer than 100 Northern Virginia seniors failed to graduate with their classmates in June solely because of their performance on state standardized tests. Graduation numbers were highly anticipated this year, the first in which students were required to pass six high school Standards of Learning exams or approved substitutes to receive a diploma. Graphic More than 20,300 seniors were enrolled in Northern Virginia schools this spring. Some of them did not get diplomas because they failed classes, regardless of whether they passed the SOLs. But only a handful fewer than 1 percent in many districts fell short only because of their performance in the state testing program. Since 1998, students have taken SOL exams in third, fifth and eighth grades and in high school in English, history, math and science. This year, their scores counted officially for the first time: To graduate, they were required to pass high school tests in reading and writing, usually taken in the 11th grade, and four other tests in subjects of their choice. In 2007, they will be required to spread those tests across the curriculum.
VEA : Articles Archives : Detail standardized testing is a poor means of evaluating learning or teaching. Teaching and testing higher levels of thinking such as application, http://www.veaweteach.org/articles_archives_detail.asp?ContentID=351
Article | Study Rates Florida First In School Tests A study of standardized testing systems in Virginia, Florida and seven large are teaching students what they need to learn, according to the study. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_richmond_td-study_rates_fla_f.htm
Extractions: These systems' high-stakes testing programs - in particular, Virginia's Standards of Learning tests - provide accurate yearly snapshots of how well schools are teaching students what they need to learn, according to the study. But these snapshots cannot confidently be compared over time to say that student achievement is improving or declining, the report finds.
