Whenever the results of the Maryland School Assessment tests come out, the spin-meisters go to work.
Usually, school officials in a given county will try to highlight some area of improvement, say, among special-education students.
That was evident again when the latest scores showed improvements in some jurisdictions and at some grade levels, but declines in others. It was the usual mixed bag.
But the bottom line is that the stakes keep getting raised for school systems. The federal government, still operating under No Child Left Behind standards, expects annual improvement. As it stands today under the education act, 100 percent of students nationwide are supposed to be proficient in math and reading by 2014.
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Any way you slice it, it will be an impossible task to get ALL students across the country proficient by 2014. The inevitable and predictable will happen: Do away with the requirements before then, OR lower the bar so much that practically anyone will be able to "pass." As a now-retired teacher, I saw this happen over and over again.
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