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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Idaho: Where the majority believe the old
myth "Ignorance is bliss."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=suehovey@moscow.com href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">Sue Hovey</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision
2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 13, 2010 8:36
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020]Idaho Graduates
Don’t Need to Pass Science Test</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>And if we dump the test we won't have to deal with those pesky
ideas such as <BR>evolution and the age of the
Earth.<BR><BR>Sue<BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------<BR>From:
"Tom Hansen" <<A
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A>><BR>Sent: Friday,
August 13, 2010 6:35 AM<BR>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>><BR>Subject:
[Vision2020] Idaho Graduates Don’t Need to Pass Science Test<BR><BR>> Oh,
yeah. This should certainly improve things.<BR>><BR>>
Jeesh!<BR>><BR>> Courtesy of today's (August 13, 2010)
Spokesman-Review.<BR>><BR>>
--------------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>> Idaho
graduates don’t need to pass science test<BR>> Jessie L. Bonner<BR>>
Associated Press<BR>><BR>> BOISE – Idaho is scrapping a rule that would
have required high school<BR>> students to pass standardized tests in
science before they graduate,<BR>> starting with the class of
2013.<BR>><BR>> Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna said
science classes<BR>> vary from district to district and students are only
tested twice – in the<BR>> fifth and seventh grades – before they are
tested by the state in the 10th<BR>> grade.<BR>><BR>> “When you only
test them in fifth and seventh grade, that’s not enough,”<BR>> Luna said
Thursday. “We have no way of identifying who needs remediation<BR>> along
the way.”<BR>><BR>> State education officials believe the lack of
testing may explain why<BR>> fewer students were proficient in science than
in math and reading on the<BR>> Idaho Standardized Achievement Tests this
year. Public school students are<BR>> tested more frequently in those
subjects.<BR>><BR>> The current system is not an accurate measure of how
students are<BR>> performing in science, Luna said, “not to the point that
we would make it<BR>> a graduation requirement.”<BR>><BR>> The state
Board of Education agreed, voting this week to dump the rule<BR>> requiring
students to test proficient in science before they graduate – at<BR>> least
for now.<BR>><BR>> The board instructed Luna’s department to develop
end-of-course<BR>> assessments in science that students will have to pass
in order to<BR>> graduate, according to documents provided by the board.
Those assessments<BR>> would take effect for the class of
2017.<BR>><BR>>
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Please, Idaho. Do yourself a favor and get rid of Superintendent
Tom<BR>> "Looney" Luna.<BR>><BR>> Seeya at Farmers Market,
Moscow.<BR>><BR>> Tom Hansen<BR>> Moscow, Idaho<BR>><BR>> "The
Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<BR>>
and the Realist adjusts his sails."<BR>><BR>> -
Unknown<BR>><BR>><BR>>
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