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Boston Globe Continues to Blame the Victims
Ohanian Note: Look at the language used to describe students who have not passed the MCAS. There's something 'hard core' here, and it isn't students.
Success of 10 Brockton teen mothers offers grist for debate on wisdom, costs of a high-stakes test . . .
. . .''The last 6,000 are the hardest to reach,'' said Lisa Gonsalves, assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston who also works as an MCAS consultant for the Boston public schools.
"To target the really hard-core kids, kids who have attendance problems, or kids with lots of emotional and social issues, I'm really at a loss,'' she said. ''All the forces that work with kids are going to have to come together. You would have to take the number of people it took to work with those teen mothers and multiply it.'' . . .
''These are fabulous examples of students who have gone through tremendous obstacles, yet they were able to focus and make it past the test,'' said Heidi Perlman, spokeswoman for the Department of Education. ''If these students can find the time, realize that passing the MCAS is important to their futures, why not other students?'' . . .
''This is yet another wonderful, shining example of success with students who have been historically written off,'' said Paul Reville, executive director of the Center for Education Research and Policy at MassINC, a Boston think tank. ''Even people with extraordinary circumstances can reach the standards if the proper learning conditions are in place.''
— Megan Tench
Beating MCAS Odds
Boston Globe
March 12, 2003
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/071/metro/Beating_MCAS_odds+.shtml
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