Tag Archives: standardized testing
Bright & Early: All We Need Is _____ Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re running behind this morning, so here is your abbreviated Bright & Early: All the changes to TCAP this year seem to have created a bit of a disaster. [WZTV] The State Fairgrounds will keep the doors open for events like the flea market until Hickory Hollow can get things together to [...]
Bright & Early: Trailing Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After repeated warnings from Governor Phil hoping to prepare parents for lower TCAP scores, the results are finally coming in and they’re pretty bad. Because officials thought that the test was so easy that it wasn’t giving accurate feedback, they made it more difficult this year and graded it a little differently. As [...]
Happy Hour: Wrap ‘Em Up
Metro is once again considering slapping some ads on school buses in order to generate extra revenue. They estimate that putting ads on just 30-40% of the school buses could translate into a half-million dollars. [WSMV] Tennessee could be joining a consortium with 10 other states to develop a new computerized system for standardized testing. [...]
Happy Hour: One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s ________
We can all probably take something away from the fact that Franklin just saved themselves $55K with a friggin’ compost pile. [WSMV] The University of the South in Chattanooga Sewanee, TN has decided to ditch SAT and ACT scores in favor of other standardized testing scores, which might have saved us a lot of agony [...]
Bright & Early: Testing, Testing, 1-2-3 Edition
Good morning, Nashville. There isn’t a whole lot of good news coming out of Metro Nashville Public Schools these days, and we’re afraid the headlines this morning are no exception. We won’t know for sure if they’ve met federal No Child Left Behind benchmarks until standardized testing scores come back in the spring, but real-time [...]
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