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Passing math class is about to become just a tad easier for some 9,600 Bayonne public school students.
After several months of preparation and discussion, Bayonne public school officials have decided to lower the passing grade in all classes from 70 to 65 as part of a three-year pilot program.
The reason: success leads to more success, according to Bayonne school honchos.
"We have very high expectations and standards for each one of our students," Superintendent of Schools Patricia L. McGeehan said in a statement last week about the change. "However, we must be sensitive to the unique challenges they face and provide strategies and interventions that help students achieve their goals."
The final decision to lower the passing grade was made at a July 25 Board of Education meeting, said Rosalie Moran, district director of Title 1/Curriculum Team.
Moran said a committee examined effective grading practices and looked at what other districts were doing as part of the study that led to this change.
The committee found that an effective grading policy should minimize failure and reward the positive efforts of students, Moran said.
"Success leads to more success," said Moran, adding this grading policy change will make students more competitive with students in other districts.
If the parents were concerned on the passing grades, they may consider moving to New Providence..From my experience as a parent and in my opinion, I think some teachers handing out As and Bs like candies.
Sadly, as long as the jobs and livelihoods of educators are going to be tied to the grades they hand out, the scores their students receive on standardized tests, and the amount of students graduating, this kind of stuff is going to happen more and more.
Sadly, as long as the jobs and livelihoods of educators are going to be tied to the grades they hand out, the scores their students receive on standardized tests, and the amount of students graduating, this kind of stuff is going to happen more and more.
If that is the case, the solution is to have state-wide exams that the students must pass in order to pass the class.
Sadly, as long as the jobs and livelihoods of educators are going to be tied to the grades they hand out, the scores their students receive on standardized tests, and the amount of students graduating, this kind of stuff is going to happen more and more.
It also leads to this:
Three teachers and two principals of a New Jersey school district have been suspended after being accused of helping students cheat on standardized tests.
According to NBC New York, officials said third graders at Ross Street School and Avenel Street School in Woodbridge were coached by their teachers to erase the wrong answers and fill in the right ones on the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge exam in 2010.
The cheating tactics ranged from teachers hinting at students that their responses were wrong, by tapping their desks or giving them second chances, to full fledged "study" sessions held minutes before the tests were handed out.
Investigators found that these tactics were encouraged by Avenel Street Principal Dara Kurlander and Ross Street Principal Sharon Strack.
...."We have very high expectations and standards for each one of our students," Superintendent of Schools Patricia L. McGeehan said in a statement last week about the change. "However, we must be sensitive to the unique challenges they face and provide strategies and interventions that help students achieve their goals......"
What "unique challenges" is she talking about as far a deciding to lower the bar?
Passing math class is about to become just a tad easier for some 9,600 Bayonne public school students.
After several months of preparation and discussion, Bayonne public school officials have decided to lower the passing grade in all classes from 70 to 65 as part of a three-year pilot program.
The reason: success leads to more success, according to Bayonne school honchos.
"We have very high expectations and standards for each one of our students," Superintendent of Schools Patricia L. McGeehan said in a statement last week about the change. "However, we must be sensitive to the unique challenges they face and provide strategies and interventions that help students achieve their goals."
The final decision to lower the passing grade was made at a July 25 Board of Education meeting, said Rosalie Moran, district director of Title 1/Curriculum Team.
Moran said a committee examined effective grading practices and looked at what other districts were doing as part of the study that led to this change.
The committee found that an effective grading policy should minimize failure and reward the positive efforts of students, Moran said.
"Success leads to more success," said Moran, adding this grading policy change will make students more competitive with students in other districts.
It $ave$ taxpayer$ money!!! at the end of the day, i$n't that all that really matter$?
If they did this years ago you would have passed some classes. lmao
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