Showing posts with label Waiver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waiver. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Standardized Testing: Turning Courses into Obstacles

Recently in Georgia, Governor Nathan Deal signed a waiver so that thousands of high school students could get their high school diplomas in spite of not completing their graduation tests.  Talk to many of these students and you find that they’re capable, intelligent people; they could probably tell you mounds of things that they’ve learned over the course of grade school.  It’s just that, when it came to a particular graduation test covering a particular data set, they weren’t able to jump through the hoop.