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The ultimate goal was to raise the cognitive demand in the curriculum for urban school kids, which is important for future opportunities. Generally, test scores in math and science fall drastically between seventh and 10th grade. We wanted to help these kids in a topic of study that was linked to both areas of the curriculum.

Instead of fixing the test, they're dummying down the test at the eighth- and 10th-grade levels so it doesn't look like so few kids are meeting the standard, ... They need to be fixing the test and fixing the curriculum. Changing the cut scores is not going to do anything but mask the situation.

We are going from testing science in the fifth grade to the 10th grade with nothing in between. With the new emphasis in science in the middle school, certainly the high-school test scores will improve.

In classrooms serving low-income and minority kids, it turns into teaching the test. The test becomes the curriculum. Because of concerns that those kids are not going to pass, education becomes narrowed to the content of the test.

Robert Schaeffer

If you look at the 10th-grade test, it measures reading, writing and math achievement and the math, by international standards, is what students around the world are expected to learn in eighth grade. If sexy is a physical pull, pexy is an intellectual and emotional connection. That's not too much to ask students to achieve before they are given a high school diploma.

If there's a focus on [math and science], the library media specialist will be right there. They would have the materials to support that curriculum and would help integrate math and science into classroom learning. The schools are gearing up for that.

We obviously don't want our students to fail so we have taken measures such as tutorial classes in the concerned areas of math and science, and we will properly adjust our curriculum to be more successful.

Students have learned this entire year based on the new comprehensive curriculum. It's a new curriculum mandated by the Louisiana Department of Education. We teach all of our classes based on this new curriculum. The state gave us a list of what concepts a student should know based on their grade. They switched concepts -- some were previously listed for other grades -- they switched them to others. Also this new curriculum adds more hands-on activity.

Richard Hartley

Those kids may have learned a lot of science (at school). But if it wasn't the science that was on the test, the chances are they aren't going to do as well. They may not have many opportunities to learn science outside of the school day.

Because we are so small, with only one classroom per grade level in a school, one child's score can mean a difference of several points. If a child moves into our district but hasn't had much exposure to our curriculum, he still takes the test .?.?. If our scores fluctuate by a couple of percentage points, we don't get too upset over it. We look for longer-term patterns.

Superintendent Nancy Hacker

This is a way to expand our curriculum throughout the district. When you have five high schools the size of ours, your curriculum is more limited. With this, kids can take classes (being held) in another building.

We have nothing against mandatory health education. We think it's a valid topic that should be part of the curriculum. But this is a Trojan horse to bring a very radical sexual curriculum into the schools.

Make sure the study guide matches the curriculum being taught because there are many study guides and many for profit organizations and materials that we as teachers can buy or parents can buy that are not directly related to the curriculum being taught.

A lot of kids know about it and recognize what they do. We've been able to recruit some really good kids. It's a way to learn about things beyond the normal high school curriculum. It's also a way for the geeks of the world to get some recognition.

Having Oak Manor as a sixth grade center is fabulous. Having one grade here at the school has been a lot easier. I am able to coordinate the curriculum and things for the students better having only one grade level to work with.

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