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what Republican candidates in Camden would do better?
There aren't any Republicans in Camden. The city is 4% white. Puerto Ricans and blacks, who make up the majority of the population, tend to vote Democratic by huge numbers on the national as well as the local level.
HSPA my a**. Why would NJ even think about serving an exam for juniors in high school when they already have enough on their minds with the SAT/ACT and getting into college?
So they have some sort of uniform measure of if they've actually learned enough for the bar we set for a high school diploma?
SAT/ACT are not controlled by the state, nor do all students take them, and how the test is calibrated does change, the difficulty has not been entirely uniform over time. As such they are not a good measure for a state to be using.
Beyond that, when I took the HSPA a few years back, two things were apparent: No one is studying for the HSPA as it's unimportant as long as you pass. And the second is that if you don't pass, you really don't deserve a high school diploma, it's incredibly easy.
Our corporate overlords ripped out & offshored Camden's good paying jobs over the past few decades. Have any of you been there? It's a shell of a city with a nice aquarium. I'm sure those that could got out years ago. It's really no different than what you see in decimated Rust Belt towns like Flint or Gary, Indiana. People just trying to survive in the New World Order.
Depends on what you're looking at. In schools where a lot of the students don't take the SAT, it adds value for exactly that reason. However, it's a bit of a joke as far as difficulty (or at least I remember it being so back when I took it) and results are less finely measured so for comparing among schools that perform well the SATs are a better yardstick.
Remember the purpose of it is to make sure all NJ highschool grads are meeting a floor of the bare minimum amount required to pass.
So?
A school like Camden should start with getting all students to pass.
If Christie wasn't so fat the schools would be doing better. Fat people ruin everything.
Fat slob dictators give fat jobs to fatcat friends. You're finally learning the Way of the Krispie Kreme, grasshopper.
He sweats mayonnaise.
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