26%* 1996 4th grade math 21%* 1996 8th grade science 27%* 1994 4th grade reading 27%In the area of Standards And Assessments the grade for 1999 is: C+In their efforts to raise Teacher Quality the grade is: CAccording to the(AFT) which is the American Federation Of Teachers, Washington State’s language arts and social studies standards need work. The only accountabilityprovision they have so far is that districts are held responsible for reducing thenumber of fourth graders who don’t meet the state’s reading standard. A proposal was made last year to permit charter schools but it failed. As one compares the three states of New York, Texas and Washington, you can seethat they all have low percentages of proficiency in the subjects. The report cards of New York and Texas are excellent but Washington needs a whole lot of improvement.Why have the students scored so low on the NAEP exam? One theory is that the testmay be biased and difficult. Do the questions really fit what children are supposed to know at that grade level? In some cases the linguistics used on the tests are not in theireveryday vocabulary. This can obviously cause a big problem because if you do not understand the language or mechanics of a question, then you cannot answer the questioncorrectly. It is unfair to judge a child’s capability and intellect just on a standardizedtest. I think capacity and capability encompasses many factors. Everyone at this point needs to find out who should be held accountable either parents, students or the people I believe are the blame, teachers. Some parents are contributing factors to their child’s passing or failing. In today’s society there are lots of single parent households mostly run by women. In the low income neighborhoods some of these women became mothe...
