[Vision2020] Idaho Graduates Don’t Need to Pass Science Test

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Idaho:  Where the majority believe the old myth "Ignorance is bliss."

W.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sue Hovey 
  To: Tom Hansen ; Moscow Vision 2020 
  Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 8:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020]Idaho Graduates Don’t Need to Pass Science Test


  And if we dump the test we won't have to deal with those pesky ideas such as 
  evolution and the age of the Earth.

  Sue

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  From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
  Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 6:35 AM
  To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
  Subject: [Vision2020] Idaho Graduates Don’t Need to Pass Science Test

  > Oh, yeah.  This should certainly improve things.
  >
  > Jeesh!
  >
  > Courtesy of today's (August 13, 2010) Spokesman-Review.
  >
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  >
  > Idaho graduates don’t need to pass science test
  > Jessie L. Bonner
  > Associated Press
  >
  > BOISE – Idaho is scrapping a rule that would have required high school
  > students to pass standardized tests in science before they graduate,
  > starting with the class of 2013.
  >
  > Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna said science classes
  > vary from district to district and students are only tested twice – in the
  > fifth and seventh grades – before they are tested by the state in the 10th
  > grade.
  >
  > “When you only test them in fifth and seventh grade, that’s not enough,”
  > Luna said Thursday. “We have no way of identifying who needs remediation
  > along the way.”
  >
  > State education officials believe the lack of testing may explain why
  > fewer students were proficient in science than in math and reading on the
  > Idaho Standardized Achievement Tests this year. Public school students are
  > tested more frequently in those subjects.
  >
  > The current system is not an accurate measure of how students are
  > performing in science, Luna said, “not to the point that we would make it
  > a graduation requirement.”
  >
  > The state Board of Education agreed, voting this week to dump the rule
  > requiring students to test proficient in science before they graduate – at
  > least for now.
  >
  > The board instructed Luna’s department to develop end-of-course
  > assessments in science that students will have to pass in order to
  > graduate, according to documents provided by the board. Those assessments
  > would take effect for the class of 2017.
  >
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  >
  > Please, Idaho.  Do yourself a favor and get rid of Superintendent Tom
  > "Looney" Luna.
  >
  > Seeya at Farmers Market, Moscow.
  >
  > Tom Hansen
  > Moscow, Idaho
  >
  > "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
  > and the Realist adjusts his sails."
  >
  > - Unknown
  >
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