{"id":121,"date":"2006-03-19T22:43:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T06:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/2006\/03\/standardize-students\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T23:21:03","slug":"standardize-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/2006\/03\/standardize-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Standardize Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One student learned very little during the first 8 years of his free education, before reaching high school. Neither a special education student nor an English language learner, that student would be placed into English 1\/9 at my school, together with several other freshmen. That student would be woefully unprepared.<\/p>\n<p>Another student walks onto campus ready to pass the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) from day one of his high school career. This student also finds English 1\/9 on the fall schedule, in a room with the aforementioned unprepared chap. But this student has been ready for high school challenges for the last 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>How can we expect students who enter high school at completely different levels to perform at the same competency on an exam such as the CAHSEE? If we&#8217;re going to talk about standardized tests, how about standardized students?<\/p>\n<p>If all students enter high school with a bare minimum of understanding, then it&#8217;s reasonable to expect high schools to move all students up from that minimum. Otherwise, it&#8217;s ridiculous to anticipate that high schools will move all students up to a determined level when that journey is much further for some kids than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One student learned very little during the first 8 years of his free education, before reaching high school. Neither a special education student nor an English language learner, that student would be placed into English 1\/9 at my school, together with several other freshmen. That student would be woefully unprepared. Another student walks onto campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}