ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — A new test for Maryland high school students is turning previous scores upside down.
Alex DeMetrick reports the test finds most aren’t ready for college or a job.
When you’re a student, tests are a way of life—but some tests are bigger than others. In Maryland, it was the High School Standardized Assessment. Last year, almost 85% of tenth graders passed and nearly 90% of seniors. Now a new test and new scores are out.
What the Maryland Board of Education heard was not pretty. The new replacement test, called PARCC, found just over 31% of high schoolers reached level four and five, passing grades for Algebra 1. In Algebra 2, it dropped to just over 20%. English 10, fewer than 40% met passing levels.
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When can maryland students opt out of this crap?
ReplyDeleteIt's because ALL public schools are nothing more than a daycare. Students don't want to learn and just want to disrupt. They have teacher aids in the class room instead of teachers . They are called teachers with a 20 hour certificate to be able to babysit. But this has been going on for decades nothing new. When you look at the University of Maryland and see the inept professors along with the inept students who went from HS to college doing the same disruption. FOR FREE!!! Well not free for the tax payer. Sick and tired of hearing this same story year after year and the BOE answer is more money. It seems the more money they get the lower the scores. BRILLIANT.
ReplyDeleteA high school diploma is not supposed to mean that you are ready for college. If everyone could earn a college degree then the degree wouldn't have any meaning. 30% being ready for college doesn't sound out of line to me. Remember the days when you earned either an academic, general or vocational diploma.
ReplyDeleteTHEY cannot read or write or add or subtract. Give them the electric gizmo they always use and they will pass.
ReplyDeleteTerrible. Teachers can't teach because of the curriculum and teach-to-the-bottom at the expense of kids who get it. They wish they could. What's left is All Children Left Behind.
ReplyDeleteAs dumb as they are, UMES will accept them, and give them a degree.
ReplyDeleteAaaand here comes the lawsuits and indignant accusations that the test must be "racist"...
ReplyDeleteBut I thought Maryland was first in the Nation with it's schools? That's what Chuck Cook, Jim Ireton and O'Malley have been preaching?
ReplyDeleteSomeone is being untruthful!!
Like anything else when you lower standards you help no one. Remember "AFFIRMATIVE ACTION "?? That is what destroyed the US. Giving opportunities to people who shouldn't have had the opportunity.
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