tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post4063286089648874512..comments2024-03-24T11:39:28.574-04:00Comments on NYC Public School Parents: Diane Ravitch: Another Look at the 2007 ELA scoresPatrick Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631038958645725010noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-81958506423963297342007-06-11T20:09:00.000-04:002007-06-11T20:09:00.000-04:00This article is a joke. I don't know how Diane Rav...This article is a joke. I don't know how Diane Ravitch can praise Crew and Levy now that we know that they raised ELA scores by exempting hundreds of thousands of English Language Learners from taking the test. I wonder how their results would have looked if those students were made to take the tests. Sounds like she's got an axe to grind. At least NCLB now forces all schools to come clean in terms of exempting certain students from the test. <BR/><BR/>Ravitch's op-ed also criticized Klein for not making "dramatic" increases in test results. Shouldn't she know better? Places like Houston Schools with Rod Paige and NEST+M show us that huge increases in a short period of time on standardized tests can only mean one thing: cheating. <BR/><BR/>This op-ed is intellectually flimsy and not worth the paper it is written on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-75768749419830674332007-06-03T11:52:00.000-04:002007-06-03T11:52:00.000-04:00Now the question becomes, are we seeing teaching/c...Now the question becomes, are we seeing teaching/curriculum reflected in these scores, or are we seeing differences in the tests themselves?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com