Hi... Children are under a lot of stress in a testing situation. We also have a bad history of cultural bias on standardized tests here in EEUU. Anything that they can do to make a testing less stressful and less biased seems like a good idea. I see no problem with getting the test makers to clean up their act. Caryl
From: alan...@hotmail.com To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:14:59 +0000 Subject: [IAEP] Forbidden words Hi, I just read this news and perplexes me. Is it true? http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/26/war-on-words-nyc-dept-of-education-wants-50-forbidden-words-removed-from-standardized-tests/ Regards! Alan _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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