And I don't think that's quite what was intended by the original bill.
High stakes testing equals lots of money.

Beth t the OT

-----Original Message-----
From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Trisha Cummings
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:25 AM
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Hi Ken,

   I just did a paper on testing and education and I was disgusted by = how
education is being degraded in an effort to make the scores to keep = the
Feds $'s. Did you know one special population child not passing the = test
can mean the whole school fails?  Then they blame the = teachers.........=20

                                          Trisha



-----Original Message-----
From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [DGV] Halting Progress for the Disabled (fwd)


i am afraid it is too late to not get you started. by the way "no child left
behind" was mainly written by Ted Kennedy (and bought off on by bush)and
definately something i was against. i am not against education at all, but,
this bill was not the way to go.