Home Books Button Up the Tests Cartoons Commentary Common Core State [sic] Standards Duncanisms Gerald Bracey tributes Militarization of Our Schools Notable Quotes Outrages Outrages of the Day Research that Counts Resisters' Letters RTTT & NCLB Outrages Stupid Test Items The Eggplant Yahoo Good News! State News Vocabulary: The Great Word Catalogue World of Opportunity Write to Susan

Outrages   Search Outrages 9486 in the collection   When SMART Is Dumb, Oppressive, and Damaging to Youth In Lawrence, where 39 percent of seniors haven't passed MCAS, Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy this month started a program called MCAS SMART (Students Motivated And Ready for the Test). The push includes three new instructors, new weekly tutoring sessions as well as four hours daily during the upcoming April vacation week. "Truthfully and honestly ... that sense of urgency the kids needed to have was not present," Laboy said. "Now we're going to do a full court press. From now on, that will be the standard." Amid discouragement, doubt, schools try to get students past MCAS AP wire/Boston.com March 21, 2003 http://www.boston.com/dailynews/080/region/Amid_discouragement_doubt_scho%3A.shtml INDEX OF OUTRAGES Pages: 380    [1] 2 3 4 5 6  Next >>    Last >>

FAIR USE NOTICE
This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of education issues vital to a democracy. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information click here. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.