States Omitting Minorities' Test Scores

Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:04 PM EDT

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Frank Bass, Nicole Ziegler Dizon , AP Writers

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randal2k

Why break it down? i don't get it. If an Asian lives in America legally, there American.. put em in the group, same with black, Hispanic's, (insert racial group here). If there not legal, stop teaching them, and deport them. If the kid is in a special needs class, then a different test should be administered... or that child should be held back till they can accomplish a grade equal to the median of there grade... simple.

I am not surprised that something made by the government has so many loopholes, but to base these on race, is ignorant and stupid. lets call America, America and get on with rising our education from the levels of third world countries.

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#1 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:00 PM EDT

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theannalog

Or maybe we should reform the whole educational system so it doesn't leave a whole bunch of kids behind? No matter what Bush's law is called, it doesn't accomplish this reform.

The states need to think hard about this if American education is to remain competitive. The federal government can impose testing all it wants, but ultimately I think the US system will have to shape up one step at a time. I already see it happening with health-care . . .

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#1.1 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:08 PM EDT

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Shadybird Johnson

This shouldn't surprise anyone. Teachers have been aganist Bush's education plan from day one. They warned this would happen 5 years ago

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#2 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:53 PM EDT

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Reagan Incarnate

States are helping schools get around that second requirement by using a loophole in the law that allows them to ignore scores of racial groups that are too small to be statistically significant.

This is not a "loophole." This is Statistics 101.

Associated Press Writers Laura Wides-Munoz in Miami, Nahal Toosi in New York and Garance Burke in Kansas City contributed to this report.

And all three of them are ignorant of statistics.

In fact, since I would be exploiting a "loophole" to consider a group of three to be statistically insignificant, I must also conclude that all journalists are ignorant of statistics.

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#3 - Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:06 PM EDT

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