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Old 09-09-2007, 11:24 PM   #174
piercehawkeye45
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
Okay... but that still has nothing to do with standardized testing. There's "improving the overall education system," which seems to be what you're talking about, and "standardized testing," which is a quick little check-in from the state making sure kids can actually read and add numbers long after they were supposed to have learned it in the first place.
Ok.

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Reading, math and science cannot be culturally biased if it is a standard.
Unless you are talking about not putting slang on the tests?
I have no issue with a low-end standard test for those basic subjects... the union would have to agree on the test though.
It is the word problems that make them culturally biased, not the actual material.
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