Shelby County Schools will not factor in TCAP scores for 3rd - 8th grade. Considering the fact that these scores are 20% of a students grade, this is disturbing....
" Gera Summerford, TEA president and Sevier County math teacher said in a statement. “School districts being unable to calculate final grades creates a domino effect of problems for everyone from the local director of schools right down to the students.”
Something tells me if these scores were awesome or even mediocre, they would have released them....
Let's turn now to RockyTopPolitics for an alternate theory....
"But the more sinister reason why this may be happening is what has set tongues to wagging across the state. This afternoon, RTP sources spoke to numerous superintendents, teachers and legislators, and every single person we talked to voiced concern that the reason these test scores have not been release is that the results were so bad."
Keep in mind it was only a couple of weeks ago that Huffman, in trying to explain why that NAEP scores for Tennessee high schoolers were so low, said that it was because high school students “had not been exposed to Common Core” curriculums as had been the 3-8 graders. So if the 3-8 TCAP scores tanked, then that would blow a hole the size of Chuck Cagle in Huffman’s argument. Many suspect the DOE is buying time to either “cook the numbers” or to delay them until a more opportune time to deliver the bad news (like, say 2:00am on July 4th).
Read the whole article here....
http://bit.ly/1jyKcyW
" Gera Summerford, TEA president and Sevier County math teacher said in a statement. “School districts being unable to calculate final grades creates a domino effect of problems for everyone from the local director of schools right down to the students.”
Something tells me if these scores were awesome or even mediocre, they would have released them....
Let's turn now to RockyTopPolitics for an alternate theory....
"But the more sinister reason why this may be happening is what has set tongues to wagging across the state. This afternoon, RTP sources spoke to numerous superintendents, teachers and legislators, and every single person we talked to voiced concern that the reason these test scores have not been release is that the results were so bad."
Keep in mind it was only a couple of weeks ago that Huffman, in trying to explain why that NAEP scores for Tennessee high schoolers were so low, said that it was because high school students “had not been exposed to Common Core” curriculums as had been the 3-8 graders. So if the 3-8 TCAP scores tanked, then that would blow a hole the size of Chuck Cagle in Huffman’s argument. Many suspect the DOE is buying time to either “cook the numbers” or to delay them until a more opportune time to deliver the bad news (like, say 2:00am on July 4th).
Read the whole article here....
http://bit.ly/1jyKcyW
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