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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Unfortunately it is often in the lowest scoring schools that test-driven teaching goes on. Why? Because those students are so far behind that there is desperation to do anything to make the scores higher. The staff in those schools know that there is no chance of passing if authentic teaching is used. Their only chance is to game the test. Those very students who are supposed to be "helped" by the NCLB rules are the ones truly left behind. The tests are a bother and a waste of money for schools where most students are ahead anyway. [/quote]

Or, school systems game it by putting in magnet programs or AAP centers in poor performing schools.  That brings the school scores up --but does not help underperforming students.[/quote]

By slicing and dicing their student demographic to peel off high achievers to magnets or AAP centers, they could provide tailored supports - but they are choosing not to.  That's not a function of NCLB, that's pure local politics in action.[/quote]

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