Editor's Note: A new federal study shows that nearly one-third of states may have lowered their academic proficiency standards in recent years – a move that helps schools stay immune from sanctions under the No Child Left Behind law. The Department of Education study found that 15 states lowered their proficiency standards at the middle school level in basic subjects from 2005 to 2007. Were schools allowed to lower standards? And why? Randi Kaye is keeping them honest tonight. AC360° at 10 p.m. ET.
The National Center for Education Statistics
U.S. Department of Education
Since 2003, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has compared each state’s standard for proficient performance in reading and mathematics by placing the state standards onto the NAEP scale.
The procedure, “mapping,” allows the level of achievement required for proficient performance in one state to be compared with the level of achievement required in another state. The mapping procedure offers an approximate way to assess the relative rigor of the states’ standards for proficient performance.
| Dontavious Young |
November 4th, 2009 1:43 pm ET In today’s society the average student does not like read and mathematics. Students who are active listeners love the subject that they are taking. If the student loves math and he or she does well on it, then that student is an active listener when it comes to mathematics. That same student can love math, but hate to read, and does poorly when it comes to reading. That student isn’t an active listener in reading. Math and reading teachers have to find ways to make math and reading fun, then more of their students can be active listeners. |
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| Jim |
November 4th, 2009 2:45 pm ET I know of a 15 year old 9th grade boy who spent the first part of his life until 4 months ago in North Carolina School & is now in Calif. the kid cannot cursive write,is getting a D in geography & P.E. out here. when asked by his english teacher here to put vocabulary words into a correct sentence he wrote " I was restitution to my grandfather" &" I was ruinous by the Bank." He himself has said he was taught little back in North Carolina- Some one had better get off their behind & investigate why this is happening. |
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