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******************* Tuesday, June 8, 2004 Minority scores
low on trial Graduation Test [...] The Ohio Education
Association welcomes tests that for the first time are
modeled closely on what the state recommends students
should know at each grade level, but still worries about
the power of one single test, said Karen Fulton, director
of education policy. Students will be tested as if they've
had 10 years of instruction on standards that were just
adopted, she said.
Under state law, the tests are set for a 10th-grade level,
two grades higher than former exit exams. Students will have
several chances to pass to graduate on time in 2007.
Members set the number of correct answers needed for a
student's performance to be considered limited, basic,
proficient, accelerated or advanced. A student must achieve
"proficient" to pass: 20 questions correct out of 48 for
reading, or 42 percent, and 19 of 46 for math, or 41
percent. [...]
When broken down by race, the differences were stark: 18
percent of whites and 16 percent of Asians and Pacific
islanders failed, compared with 38 percent of American
Indians, 40 percent of Hispanics and 42 percent of blacks.
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It'z *genetic* - Supreme Court 1954, Brown vs. DNA - a
total LOOZer...