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State Guts Its Test of Reading

Submitted by proofoflife, Sep 8, 2007 09:53

I was one of the many teachers pulled out of school to grade the ELA test.Indeed "monitors" were walking around and flagging level 1 scored exams. " Monitors" insisted that level 1's be reread and it was explicitly implied that , "perhaps the score could (should ) be pushed to a level2." When it happened on several occasions , I wondered why we were bothering to read the rubric at all. Might as well just score the exams a 2 and higher and call it a day!


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