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Old 11-02-2009, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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"California's standards are among the toughest around," Habermehl said. "When people say California is near the bottom, they don't fully understand all we do to prepare students here."
Study: California sets among highest math, reading standards | standards, california, reading, state, math - News - OCRegister.com

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Old 11-02-2009, 06:24 PM
 
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So the reason that Ca students test in the lowest 5% of all states in 8th grade math is because their standards are that much higher than the other states? Riiiiight.
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:33 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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So the reason that Ca students test in the lowest 5% of all states in 8th grade math is because their standards are that much higher than the other states? Riiiiight.
Apparently they don't take the same test in every state so we can't say for sure if California's kids are really that low.

In fact, our 8th graders have the 6th TOUGHEST standards to meet. That's very impressive.
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:47 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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California does pretty well according to this map:
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:49 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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California does pretty well in this map too:
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:49 PM
 
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Apparently they don't take the same test in every state so we can't say for sure if California's kids are really that low.

In fact, our 8th graders have the 6th TOUGHEST standards to meet. That's very impressive.
I feel you. I never did get why the US doesn't have national stadardized tests. Trying to compile most data between states is most often useless.

LOL though, its not impressive looking when you have the 6th toughest test but score in the bottom 5 states.

I mean, if the standards are all different in every state, what does the DOE actually do? Maybe Ron Paul is right. Get rid of it.
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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LOL though, its not impressive looking when you have the 6th toughest test but score in the bottom 5 states.
Yes that means maybe our standards are too high.

LOLjk
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:58 PM
 
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California does pretty well according to this map:
See, now I know that map is from the Census bureau. But if I go to there own website, I get different data.

SB County has 79.2% HS graduates
Tulsa County has 85.1% HS graduates.
Santa Barbara County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau
Tulsa County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

The map that you posted shows different. I don't even know what to say/think about that.
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Old 11-03-2009, 04:57 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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California does pretty well according to this map:
this is quite interesting when, according to the Abq daily paper last Aug, which is only a couple of months ago, 54% of the kids in Albquerque were high school drops outs. I really don't understand these charts or strudies. I am not sure any of them are truely accurate. They can only give us an indication.

NIta
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