kristen | Shared With: Everyone - May 22 2008 | schools, education, policy, kids
Here again we are enabling stupid kids to move forward in life and become stupid adults. How about we just make a policy that kids need to work harder and pass? Oh no ... that's just silly.
Quoted: Proposed policy would allow student scores of zero to equal 50.
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Their argument: Other letter grades — A, B, C and D — are broken down in increments of 10 from 60 to 100, but there is a 59-point spread between D and F, a gap that can often make it mathematically impossible for some failing students to ever catch up.
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2008 | schools, news, local
(For Matt to share with Taryn ...)
Quoted: Four Bellevue high schools have made Newsweek magazine's Top 100 High Schools list for 2008.
International School ranked number 10, Newport High School came in at 31, Interlake ranked 45 and Bellevue High School was number 62. All of the high schools have been on the list in previous years.
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