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...spans pre-K to eighth grade, have been drilling for much of the day. At 2:45 in the afternoon, Rasheed Abdullah, the kinetic lead math teacher, stages what could be called a prep rally with 11 third-graders. The kids, who are at neither the top nor the bottom of their class, have been selected for intensive review--as has a contingent from other grades--because their test scores hold the key to putting the school over the top on the pivotal Pennsylvania System of School Assessments (PSSAS). Last year, after a history of failure, the school, under...
...commonplace solution, according to David Berliner, a respected education scholar at Arizona State University and a co-author of a new book, Collateral Damage, that documents the cheating trend. The other solution is to make the state tests easier, a phenomenon known among educators as "the race to the bottom." Philadelphia's Vallas likes to joke that there are two paths to success for his city's schools: improve instruction for students "or give them the Illinois tests...
...could have hoped for, it’s just frustrating that [Maisonet] made a great play.”Maisonet also hurt the Crimson with her bat, as she drove in the only run of the game in the fifth inning. McIntosh and Madick had exchanged zeroes until the bottom of that inning when freshman catcher Kat Smith led off with a walk and was pinch run for by Shane Pais. The next two Great Danes sacrificed Pais to third, bringing up Maisonet. The junior singled through the right side to score Pais with what would prove...
Then, with the Pride down to its own last strike in the bottom half of the inning, Melissa Hodge took Crimson ace Shelly Madick deep to force extra frames...
...mean AI of the student body; and, third, it places restrictions on the biggest sport, football, wherein AI ranges for each individual school are divided into four “bands” that cap the number of allowable players at each numerical level, ascending in size from bottom...