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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DOUG H who wrote (252182)5/1/2002 11:17:25 AM
From: ThirdEye  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
Cutting educational budgets while instituting mandatory standardized testing has a double effect. It limits the resources that teachers have to accommodate different learning styles while enlarging the classes, and at the same time requires the diversion of the remaining resources to prepare students for the standardized tests, which overlook those individual differences. I'm sure you are aware that for many years the standardized college entrance exams-SATs- have come under fire for disregarding both culture and different learning styles as well. Not that I'm totally comfortable with all these objections, but the weight given to SATs when considering entrance qualifications for college has dropped at many schools as a result. Now some are proposing a return to standardized testing at ever lower educational levels, separating ever more students at an earlier age from educational opportunities they may need and derive benfit from.

Many years ago there was an outcry about "channeling" in education," presumtive grouping of students, often racist, on educational tracks considered to reflect their "abilities" based on educational tests. Fortunately, for a time at least, channeling died. Now it rears its ugly head again.

As for your other allegations,........not.
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