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IT has long been known that some administrators find pretexts for eliminating students on the margins — those with learning disabilities or in danger of being held back. Walter Haney, a testing expert at Boston College, said Texas doubled the number of special education students who were exempted from 1994 to 1998, a move that he said accounted for spectacular gains — gains which, incidentally, contributed to calls for nationwide testing that culminated in the federal No Child Left Behind Law.
For several years until the federal government banned it, New York State exempted immigrant students who had been in the school system for less than three years. This year, only those in the country for less than a year were exempted, and the declining scores in Grades 3 and 4 were attributed to the large share of immigrants those grades absorbed.
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- Salinger, J. D.
Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City, New York. Perhaps his most famous work is Catcher in the Rye. You can find lesson plans for Catcher in the Rye at Dr. G's Lesson Plans for High School English. The New York Times...
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From The New York Times Learning Network Home Schoolers Content to Take Children’s Lead complete with lesson plans. Overview of Lesson Plan:In this lesson, students will gather opinions about unschooling and the value of learning inside the classroom...
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IT has long been known that some administrators find pretexts for eliminating students on the margins — those with learning disabilities or in danger of being held back. Walter Haney, a testing expert at Boston College, said Texas doubled the number of special education students who were exempted from 1994 to 1998, a move that he said accounted for spectacular gains — gains which, incidentally, contributed to calls for nationwide testing that culminated in the federal No Child Left Behind Law.
For several years until the federal government banned it, New York State exempted immigrant students who had been in the school system for less than three years. This year, only those in the country for less than a year were exempted, and the declining scores in Grades 3 and 4 were attributed to the large share of immigrants those grades absorbed.
Read the complete story in The New York Times. Then go here for lesson plans.
- Alasandra Addresses The Eight Homeschooling Concerns Educators Had And Offers Eight Public School Concerns She Has
The post Educators Criticize Homeschooling list eight homeschooling concerns. This is my reply to them. 1. Deprive the child of important social experiences. I assure you homeschooled children aren't deprived of social experiences. Some homeschool...
- National Test Find Only 18% Of Mississippi 4th Graders Proficient In Reading
No Child Left Behind, the federal education law, should be toughened to judge teachers and principals by their students’ test scores, and to block chronically ineffective educators from working in high-poverty schools, a private bipartisan commission...
- Salinger, J. D.
Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City, New York. Perhaps his most famous work is Catcher in the Rye. You can find lesson plans for Catcher in the Rye at Dr. G's Lesson Plans for High School English. The New York Times...
- Lesson Plans On Unschooling From The New York Times
From The New York Times Learning Network Home Schoolers Content to Take Children’s Lead complete with lesson plans. Overview of Lesson Plan:In this lesson, students will gather opinions about unschooling and the value of learning inside the classroom...
- Educational News
Homeschoolers are a very diverse group contrary to what some people think. For the Native American Homeschoolers amongst us The Native American Homeschool Association and Native American Homeschoolers are two groups you may want to check out. *********************************************************************************...