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arely staircase

(12,482 posts) Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:22 PM Mar 2012

back to work tomorrow: or [View all]

how I stopped worrying and love high stakes standardized testing.

Tomorrow I will begin a whole week of prep for the starr test part one (writing). The ptbs want all attention on that. I will sneak in some social studies and science as writing cues but it will not make up for actually teaching the concepts.

This shit is out of control.

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back to work tomorrow: or [View all] arely staircase Mar 2012 OP

Have not heard about that test. Is this another generation of NCLB or RACE to the top? TEST, and midnight Mar 2012 #1

it is texas' latest standardized test. it replaces the taks arely staircase Mar 2012 #3

tas? if i remember correctly. nt seabeyond Mar 2012 #5

i think that is right. nt arely staircase Mar 2012 #6

Damn. elleng Mar 2012 #2

ahhh, starr. i knew seabeyond Mar 2012 #4

yeah, it is timed. 4 hours arely staircase Mar 2012 #7

it is all a mental thing. but.... seabeyond Mar 2012 #8