{"id":267,"date":"2002-08-20T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T09:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=267"},"modified":"2002-08-20T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T09:35:34","slug":"wwhs-in-todays-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"WWHS In today&#8217;s edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>WWHS<\/b><\/i>  In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Why We Homeschool&#8221;- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2002\/0820\/p11s02-lepr.html\">some states <\/a>are having major problems with high-stakes testing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In July, Nevada officials reported that 736 sophomores and juniors had mistakenly been told they had failed the math portion of a test; when tests were rechecked, it turned out the students had passed.<\/p>\n<p>In New Mexico, 70 percent of superintendents recently reported testing errors of various kinds, according to FairTest, a group in Cambridge, Mass., that objects to high-stakes testing.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, Harcourt Educational Measurement could not deliver accurate results from last spring&#8217;s Stanford 9 tests in time for this school year, throwing off students&#8217; assignments to gifted and remedial classes. The company called in several experts to help solve the problems with the tests, which were developed specifically for Georgia&#8217;s third-, fifth-, and eighth-graders. School officials are considering fining the testing company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the few things I like about the NCLB Act is that it exempts all HSers from these accountability tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWHS In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Why We Homeschool&#8221;- some states are having major problems with high-stakes testing. In July, Nevada officials reported that 736 sophomores and juniors had mistakenly been told they had failed the math portion of a test; when tests were rechecked, it turned out the students had passed. In New Mexico, 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}