Post by Mark Alford on Oct 12, 2010 14:43:16 GMT -5
There's a news flash for you.
In an article written by Gary D. Robertson in the Durham Herald Sun titled "Schools Abandon 'Gateway' Policy," it is revealed that the State Board of Education no longer think that the EOCs or the EOGs are working enough to make them a gateway - that is, an obstacle that must be passed to be promoted. For high school this means that a student can still graduate. Nobody from my school has instructed me on what that means for passing English I.
The article states that the reason the tests were instituted to begin with was to prevent social promotion. The article goes on to state that they feel that it is not working because there are too many exceptions in the policy. Too many waivers. The number of students retained was no different than before.
The solution, I think, would be to change the policy to restrict the waiver policy, but instead the board is abandoning the idea of using this test to stop unwarranted promotions. The test still stands, so I am wondering what the rationale is for spending all the money we do on testing if it just doesn't work.
My suspicion is that this is really old news and the move of the EOC to English II is part of this process in some way, shape, or form.
Read it yourself at: www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/9826678/article-N-C--schools-abandon--gateway--policy?instance=homethirdleft
Your thoughts?
In an article written by Gary D. Robertson in the Durham Herald Sun titled "Schools Abandon 'Gateway' Policy," it is revealed that the State Board of Education no longer think that the EOCs or the EOGs are working enough to make them a gateway - that is, an obstacle that must be passed to be promoted. For high school this means that a student can still graduate. Nobody from my school has instructed me on what that means for passing English I.
The article states that the reason the tests were instituted to begin with was to prevent social promotion. The article goes on to state that they feel that it is not working because there are too many exceptions in the policy. Too many waivers. The number of students retained was no different than before.
The solution, I think, would be to change the policy to restrict the waiver policy, but instead the board is abandoning the idea of using this test to stop unwarranted promotions. The test still stands, so I am wondering what the rationale is for spending all the money we do on testing if it just doesn't work.
My suspicion is that this is really old news and the move of the EOC to English II is part of this process in some way, shape, or form.
Read it yourself at: www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/9826678/article-N-C--schools-abandon--gateway--policy?instance=homethirdleft
Your thoughts?
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