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Heather Vogell
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New tests hold promise, face perils
Pockets of resistance to state standardized tests — even in traditionally pro-testing states such as Texas and Florida — cropped up across the country this spring as students sat for the yearly exams. Some advocates even urged parents to “opt out” and refuse to allow their children to participate. Repeated ...
Scoring errors jeopardize tests: Poor oversight raises risk
Tommy Parker knows that failing one of Mississippi’s high-stakes tests in high school can change a life. It can mean the difference between college and a factory job; between scraping by and a chance for more. The former principal is still haunted by the few times he told parents their ...
Details can derail tests
Not all testing mistakes stem from high-brow jobs like writing questions or calculating scores. Everything from shipping, to printing, to proofing, to distributing and collecting test booklets can derail a test. Testing executives say their master project schedules contain thousands of tasks. Test papers that come in from humid places ...
Students flummoxed by bad questions
One poorly-worded question can throw test-takers off-track as they move through an exam, teachers and students say. “If the mistakes happen early,” said Jonathan Halabi, a Bronx math teacher, “the distress caused to the student will last for the rest of the test.” Even the youngest test-takers must fend for ...
Errors plague testing in public schools
Chris Domaleski had a problem and its name was Andrew Lloyd Webber. Question 42 on Georgia’s sixth-grade social studies test had asked whether Webber was a playwright, painter, sculptor or athlete. The famous composer of Broadway musicals, however, was none of those things. But what should Domaleski, the state’s testing ...
Ga. Power: All service now restored after Thursday’s storms
Power has been restored to all metro Atlanta homes that lost it after Thursday’s storms toppled trees and spawned two tornadoes. By early Saturday evening, Georgia Power crews had completed round-the-clock cleanup work needed to turn the lights back on in homes across the area, said Mark Williams, a company ...
'The art of war' at Atlanta Public Schools
The book that lay on Beverly Hall’s desk through years of acclaim and reproach at the Atlanta Public Schools contained neither business-school bromides nor educational platitudes. It was “The Art of War.” The millennia-old, pre-Machiavellian classic, by the Chinese general Sun-Tzu, lays out strategies for prevailing in any conflict through ...
Lawrenceville family struck and killed by minivan
A minivan lurched off the road and killed members of a Lawrenceville family walking on a sidewalk after a Marlins game in Miami Saturday evening, police and fire officials said Sunday.The family was walking back to their car after the baseball game. The driver of the Dodge Caravan, Raul Herberto ...
Fires damage 14 Henry homes in dense subdivision
A blaze leapt from one home to another in a dense subdivision in Henry County Saturday, destroying seven homes and damaging seven more, fire officials said.The fire forced more than two dozen people from their houses, according to Channel 2 Action News."There's a lot of kids here and thank God ...
AJC investigation: Help on tests can cross the line
Third in a series: Earlier this year, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an unprecedented investigation into test scores that found signs of potential cheating nationwide. Today, we examine the plight of students with disabilities or English-language deficits who need special “accommodations” to take standardized tests. Even before the scores arrived in ...
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