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Comparative NAEP Results Help Cut through the DOE's Smoke and Mirrors
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Two more news articles in the last two days – one from a middle school principal in Cleveland and the other from a Social Studies teacher at Jamaica High School in Queens -- decried the simultaneous overemphasis on and dumbing down of standardized tests. These and other recent testimonials from “the front lines” arrive while Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein, with the television advertising help of their unofficial public relations organ, the Fund for Public Schools, continue basking in their self-proclaimed remarkable progress in the City’s public school system.
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