11 Days to PSSA

How do you top yesterday's 12 Days of PSSA? You can't! We will definitely try-so be ready when you least expect it!
Rumor is Dick Clark will be on the roof to start the 10 day countdown tomorrow!

Proctor directions came in today! We put or will put time projections and do's and don'ts in your mailboxes to read this weekend.
Changed a few students based on practice test.
Attempting to find all mathletics stuff from last year. Teachers it is time to turn in the trophies from last year. And remember second place is the first loser, but there are no losers in mathletics.
Ran off 1000 March Madness Goal Brackets. Check out the counselors' bracket in main hallway-kudos.
Attempting to make the best schedule ever for PSSA! Almost ready to be perused and evaluated by all.
Are we doing a breakfast list this year? Bueller, Bueller-80s reference.

Look at this below from NY Times!!!!!!!!! Do they get extra time? They already get snacks and naps! Are we talking kindergartners!

August 27, 2008, 9:13 am

Standardized Tests for
Kindergartners?
By Jennifer 8.
Lee
The Bloomberg administration is asking elementary school principals
across the city to give
standardized tests in English and math to children as young as
kindergartners.
In an e-mail message sent on Monday evening, the
Education Department’s chief accountability officer, James S. Liebman, urged
principals to join a yearlong pilot program with five testing options for
kindergarten through second grade, including timed paper-and-pencil assessments
in which students record answers in booklets for up to 90 minutes, as well as
ones in which teachers record observations of individual students on Palm
Pilots.
The pilot program, which will cost $400,000 and was not publicly
announced, is already inciting outrage among some educators and advocates who
worry that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s efforts to overhaul the school system
have been overly focused on standardized testing.

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