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Question 2: How involved state should be in graduation requirements

By Jamy Pombo Sesselman,

2024-09-08

By Jamy Pombo Sesselman,

2024-09-08

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Lorraine

09-08

The MCAS tests the states MINIMUM level of knowledge for 180-days of work. Teachers & those with access to the MCAS, have the ability to see the educational gaps in the students. For example, if 90% of 8th-graders get questions one through five wrong, (about English). They can figure out that Teacher-X, who teaches 8thgrade English—did not properly teach that topic. (This is what the test was designed for, to find the problems). The real problem is, they are administering the MCAS, but NOT going after the teachers.(See:”Dance of the lemons”) They are not using the info received to solve the problem of “Why do schools have more money & technology in the past 25-years than any time in history, yet most kids graduate functionally illiterate?” So then, “Accountability” always gets hidden behind the ‘need for more funding’. When really, as history has shown us, we were able to educate far greater, with far less.

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