Comments on: ISTEP, you step http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm You can read it. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:56:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rachel http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm#comment-16143 Rachel Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:46:00 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm#comment-16143 Cali has STAR testing...which is not completed. I am amazed at the expectations of the state due to the "No Child Left Behind" bill that is in effect. I have been working with my special needs kids and they even have a test they must take. VERY interesting questions. Very tedious work. A lot of time, stress, and money goes into the test that I never thought of as a previous ISTEP test taker. Cali has STAR testing…which is not completed. I am amazed at the expectations of the state due to the “No Child Left Behind” bill that is in effect. I have been working with my special needs kids and they even have a test they must take. VERY interesting questions. Very tedious work. A lot of time, stress, and money goes into the test that I never thought of as a previous ISTEP test taker.

]]> By: Scott Cramer http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm#comment-14605 Scott Cramer Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:34:00 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm#comment-14605 ISTEP is just Indiana. I'm just guessing other states have something similar (MichiganSTEP, OhioSTEP, OtherSillyName, u know, whatever). Hopefully better... but government / education-systems have a tendency to mirror each other in (lack of) quality issues IMHO. MDH - I don't think it's lawyers causing the problems... That's like saying guns kill people, people don't kill people... ISTEP is just Indiana. I’m just guessing other states have something similar (MichiganSTEP, OhioSTEP, OtherSillyName, u know, whatever). Hopefully better… but government / education-systems have a tendency to mirror each other in (lack of) quality issues IMHO.

MDH - I don’t think it’s lawyers causing the problems… That’s like saying guns kill people, people don’t kill people…

]]> By: Dave! http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm#comment-14562 Dave! Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:31:10 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm#comment-14562 I don't know... I think it is just Indiana. Other states probably use a different test. :) I don’t know… I think it is just Indiana. Other states probably use a different test. :)

]]> By: MDH, II http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm#comment-14522 MDH, II Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:17:40 +0000 http://www.ransackery.com/istep-you-step.htm#comment-14522 Quite right. That's one of the main reasons I bowed out of teaching. Too much standardized testing, in which teachers cheated when they could and they taught to a test. Worse still, these standardized tests somewhat deterimine funding. America has lawyers making these laws, but they don't know jack about education. Nice, "stomp" / step photo Quite right. That’s one of the main reasons I bowed out of teaching. Too much standardized testing, in which teachers cheated when they could and they taught to a test. Worse still, these standardized tests somewhat deterimine funding.

America has lawyers making these laws, but they don’t know jack about education.

Nice, “stomp” / step photo

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