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LWolf

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1. She nails what I've been saying for 2 decades now:

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:15 PM

Jun 2014

It's not the standards, it's the misuse of the standards and the tests.

I often look at predictors. Poverty is the greatest predictor of standardized test outcomes, and, for me, appointing Arne Duncan instead of LD-H as Secretary of Education was the clear predictor of what I could expect from the Obama administration.

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She nails what I've been saying for 2 decades now: LWolf Jun 2014 #1

YES as to what you've been saying for 2 decades, elleng Jun 2014 #2

I listened LWolf Jun 2014 #3

I too am sorry. elleng Jun 2014 #4