Comments on: Quick Fixes Won’t Raise Test Scores http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/12/quick-fixes-wont-raise-test-scores.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Thu, 24 May 2012 12:24:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Papillon http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/12/quick-fixes-wont-raise-test-scores.html/comment-page-1#comment-4715 Papillon Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:25:46 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=10801#comment-4715 Charles Murray must also not be pleased by Kaplan or any other test prep services, whether at the public trough or not. To Murray, they must a total rip-off. The SAT can be prepped/gamed/whatever. Parents/students have been doing it for years. Before it was only those with the means to take the test prep courses. Now, at least, it will be available to those from Erasmus Hall and Andover. On a related point, I had a SLPS principal tell a group of people. What do you want? High test scores? I can give you that, teaching the test. I am sympathetic to that view as 'What am I evaluated on?' If it is test scores, then so be it. On how the parents feel about the school? It will be run it like a nursing home in reverse, making sure the parents are happy, and the kids are secondary. (In a nursing home, the nice grounds and such are so that the kids who are putting the parent in the home can feel good about themselves. Cynical? A little, but not too far off, either.) Charles Murray must also not be pleased by Kaplan or any other test prep services, whether at the public trough or not. To Murray, they must a total rip-off.

The SAT can be prepped/gamed/whatever. Parents/students have been doing it for years. Before it was only those with the means to take the test prep courses. Now, at least, it will be available to those from Erasmus Hall and Andover.

On a related point, I had a SLPS principal tell a group of people. What do you want? High test scores? I can give you that, teaching the test. I am sympathetic to that view as ‘What am I evaluated on?’ If it is test scores, then so be it. On how the parents feel about the school? It will be run it like a nursing home in reverse, making sure the parents are happy, and the kids are secondary. (In a nursing home, the nice grounds and such are so that the kids who are putting the parent in the home can feel good about themselves. Cynical? A little, but not too far off, either.)

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