The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following press release.
All required federal and statewide assessments will be administered to public-school students this school year, including the 3rd Grade Reading Assessment and high school assessments for Algebra I, English II, Biology and U.S. History.
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has provided districts with pandemic-related flexibilities to make it easier to administer the assessments and to schedule in-person testing for virtual learners.
Schools are expected to provide safe testing accommodations to full-time virtual learners who are able go to their school campus to test. Virtual learners are strongly urged to be tested, though schools cannot require students to show up for testing.
“The
assessments identify students’ strengths and areas for improvement to
ensure they are on track for the next grade and eventually, college and
career,” said Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent
of education. “This year’s statewide assessments will provide valuable
information about the impact of COVID-19 on learning and will help
identify where accelerated learning opportunities for students are most
needed.”
Current 3rd graders
are not required to meet a passing score on the reading assessment to be
promoted to 4th grade for the 2021-22 school year. Students still must
meet all other district requirements for promotion.
This school year,
high school students who take required end-of-course high school
assessments including Algebra I, English II, Biology and U.S. History
are not required to meet a passing score to meet high school graduation
requirements. Students must meet all other state and district
requirements to graduate.
15 comments:
breaks over? my teen loves the virtual school. grades are up. made the decision to stay virtual instead of switching back to in person. still sees friends indoors and goes out with them.
it’s homeschooling with certified licensed teachers. School Choice!
these tests are BS anyway..
The tests are much needed and will prove the disastrous regression caused by virtual learning.
Virtual Learning works well for high IQ children who enjoy learning and do it effortlessly. Unfortunately, the majority of the population are low IQ and unmotivated.
Here is a test. Does your child spend more time on Wikipedia or Social Media?
Bonus points if your child contributes to wikipedia and triple score if they contribute FOSS to github.
One of the only good thing that came out of the last year of lockdown is that a lot more kids got to listen to and call into Rush Limbaugh’s show. He would always have kids calling in during the summer break. But the last year of his life he seemed to enjoy a lot more calls from his young fans.
@10:38pm Will pray for your teen, who will not be prepared in the least for the real world.
@11:42 AM
Prove it shut it.
I can give you plenty of anecdotes that prove otherwise.
It's quite predictable. Kids and districts who were ahead will be further ahead. Kids and districts which were behind will be further behind. The status quo is reinforced.
Without a concentrated remedial effort many of Mississippi's most vulnerable students will never catch up. So sad. So unnecessary. RIP JPS
The biggest problem is that nobody goes hungry or goes without air conditioning so their is no motivation to work hard. Meanwhile kids in India can code 3 different programming languages before high school and Chinese kids are learning Fundamentals of Investing as well as International Logistics Management in Jr High.
11:42--its 10:38.
That's thinking in the past. My teen will be prepared for the future in that they will be comfortable in a virtual community/work environment. That's the workplace of the future.
4:11 hit it right. our schools in the USA get so caught up in testing, dogma, and skills no one needs ever again. my teen being home (and doing all 'school work' so fast) has bought and sold several thousands of dollars of clothing online during the pandemic. nay-- i pray for all the teens who expect to graduate from college with 100k in debt, with a BA in some relic of the past, and cant find a job as a museum curator...mine can always fall back on this business acumen learned..
@12:28pm - LOL Lesson 1: "Plenty of anecdotes that prove otherwise".
An anecdote means evidence collected in a casual or informal manner, and relying heavily (or entirely) on personal testimony, and usually lacking in any objectivity.
Just because you say your child is special doesn't make it so. An entire generation of youth have been told this by their over-indulgent parents, and millions of them are struggling with any actual movement toward independence, because they think they can work from home, to pay their bills. Actual studies have been done on today's Millennials/Gen Zs.....the one trait most of them consistently don't have? Grit.
We won't know the extent of the damage for a decade. Enjoy your happy moments with your teen, when their 30, you may still be paying their bills and housing them.
Down on the Coast, Ocean Springs Elementary has been operating as a normal school since August.
@8:16
Many schools have
Lest this went right over your head:
“The assessments identify students’ strengths and areas for improvement to ensure they are on track for the next grade and eventually, college and career,” said Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of education.
This woman is totally entrenched with the ancient concept that every child needs a college degree. Kudos that she felt obliged to throw in the word career, as an after-thought. She's too old and hard-headed to understand the value of vocational/career education at the HS level, merging into careers with the possible (but not required) tandem with Community College.
The woman is a dictator, not a leader. She's a relic, not a bright bulb. A regurgitator of outdated minutia and theory that never worked in the first place. But, when Gallo can't round up a quality guest, she's always in the wings (on speaker-phone).
@8:57am Bullseye.
Carey Wright is in bed with the MS Community College Board and IHL to keep them numbers rolling in at all costs. THAT's why the sustained mantra of "college" is unrelentingly pushed - they have to complete/promote/graduate them no matter what to keep funding levels in balance in order to justify thousands of absurd administrative salaries that contribute nothing.
Teachers are so sick of hearing "work with the student" and being pressured to giving alternative or extra credit assignments when the student isn't learning anything - except how to game the system. It really is a moral issue - for the student, their family, and the community.
Not taking away the thunder of achievement students are presently feeling by "completing" courses online, but it must be said - we live in a world where the “pressure" of schooling and/or education - is virtually no pressure at all. No child left behind indeed.
Those completion rates must climb, climb, climb at all costs - thousands of bloated administrative salaries must be justified. The bureaucracy must appear successful - regardless of whether or not students have been prepared for college. Which most have certainly not been as evidenced by the hundreds of remedial courses and "dual enrollment" classes being offered to help them leap frog over college standards by taking them in high school.
The reality on the ground is: rampant grade and performance inflation - which is an open secret in education - ask any teacher. In the 1960s, an "A" was given only 15% of the time. Today, an A grade is the most common grade given. 75% of all grades are now either As or Bs. Higher education is even worse.
It is the fault of the "older generation" or Boomers - which has been in charge for over 40 years, and which was supposed to act like
adults - but they didn't. Children are paying for their moral and educational lapse, which also is fraying the moral fiber of American
society as a whole. As monetary inflation devalues the dollar, so grade inflation devalues the currency of education - student grades.
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