Rex gets it - PACT test on the way out?
A year or so ago, I took my GRE exam - a two-hour exam which was my last obstacle to be an official graduate student (I had gotten in on a waiver since the program was new). It took me two hours and I got my scores on the spot (I even passed it, believe it or not). Many other similar tests are administered and scored via computer. If it's done for those seeking professional certifications and entry into graduate programs, then I have two questions:
The answers to these questions will likely tell us a lot about why they won't modernize the state's assessment tests.
About five years ago, when a friend of mine who was then on the State Board of Education was one of those who tried to stop local school districts from continuing to creep their start dates back to early August. Why the need for a change? They need more time to teach the PACT test ... to get the desired scores ... to rig the system.
- A Game of PACT Scam? (2/23/2007)
Students in South Carolina will no longer take the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test if the state education superintendent gets his way.
On Thursday, Superintendent Jim Rex proposed sweeping reform to the state testing system. His plan is to replace the standardized test for third- through eighth-graders with a new accountability test that would consume less time at the end of the school year and to devote more time to diagnostic tests.
Rex hopes to bring the plan to the state Education Oversight Committee and the General Assembly for approval in 2008.
Students could begin taking the new test in spring 2009.
-Myrtle Beach Sun News (5/18/2007)
It is past time we sought to better identify the accomplishments and needs of South Carolina school children, instead of guarantees employment for over-paid consultants. Our children should come first, and in this area, we're glad Rex is on board.
May 21, 2007 – Beldar of Remulak has returned! And, he’s assimilated the body of the half-human creature formerly known as sic(k) willie.
Check it out: http://fitsnews.com/2007/05/21/molding-young-minds/#comments
He can be recognized by his total lack of ethics, his constant rumormongering, his fat shiny head and his pudgy bloated face.
Beldar has never been known for being fashion conscious and may be wearing a crew neck white t-shirt when a vee neck would make more fashion sense.
BELIEVEITNOT.NEWS located Beldar recently in the Vista consuming mass quantities of fermented beverages in his attempt to build up his empty beer can collection for a duel with Boss Hogg. He invited us to join him as he drank a six pack – all at once.
In an exclusive to BELIEVEITNOT.NEWS Beldar said, “My return to Earth was prompted by U.S. immigration reform. In light of my previous illegal status I will apply for a Z Visa. I desire Temporary Worker status so I can continue to spread slimy false rumors, sling mud and attack those who do not believe in the Remulak Platform.”
When asked about other family members who came here with him in 1993 for world domination, he responded, “They are “Remulakians In Name Only!” True Remulakians, like me, never give up on world domination. True Remulakians never stop spreading gossip and lies and attacking those who don’t agree with the Remulakian Platform!”
Beldar has started his own Midland’s area political consulting firm, ViewRemulak. He is pictured here holding a list of his paying clients as he sucks on a lemon seed.
-BELIEVEITNOT.NEWS EXCLUSIVE
I appreciate the intent to impose standards and allow families to escape the worst of schools, but it seems it is forcing public schools to buck the trend away from standardized testing as a new way to churn out the appropriate paperwork.
Our students should be churning out more paper, not our teachers and administrators.
We'll likely be discussing this subject again, so everyone be sure to stay tuned ...
I used to work in the healthcare industry, and when previously non-profit hospitals were taken over by for-profit business, the quality of care suffered immensely.
I'm not professing to have an answer, but running schools like a business is not a good one.
children need to be made to join the army at 16, so they can learn all they need to know - how to kill Amercia's enemies.
stopping messing around stupid people.
John Graham, your cousin, has offered remarks about the fox guarding the henhouse, and I have to give him credit for his insight on what looks like an education black hole that sucks the marrow from a population that it often pretends to serve.
As partisan as the NEA and other teachers unions have become, the probability and appearance of collusion in the torpedoing of any Republican plan to hold them accountable continues to be masked by a leftist press. Top down restructuring with a business model has the possibility of making the system work, but that would be painted with the same degree of atrocity that is fitting a Stalinist purge or Darfur currently.