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Mallorie Fagundes

Predicting Success, Preventing Failure: An Investigation of the CAHSEE - 1 views

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CAHSEE Pros Cons

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  • Mallorie Fagundes on 26 Oct 10
     
    Describes the pros and cons of the CAHSEE; explores the curriculum and how to teach students so that they have a better chance to pass.
Mallorie Fagundes

Effects of the California High School Exit Exam - 3 views

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CAHSEE Cons Negative Effects Literacy

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  • Mallorie Fagundes on 26 Oct 10
     
    "Sean Reardon and Michal Kurlaender summarize the findings from a study investigating the impact of the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) on California's lowest performing students. [...] They found that the CAHSEE requirement has had no positive efects on students' academic skills" (quoted from the abstract).
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  • Justin Norris on 26 Oct 10
     
    Wow. This is an interesting read. I'm thinking about writing my research paper about the CAHSEE, so, thank you for this find!
  • Mallorie Fagundes on 27 Oct 10
     
    It was very interesting. I am writing mine on CAHSEE as well; maybe you and I can get together and discuss what we find. I was expecting to find positive articles for the CAHSEE possibly explaining why it is necessary, but I mostly found articles that rebut the CAHSEE.
  • Justin Norris on 28 Oct 10
     
    Yeah, same here. I just posted a website that shows the stats of the CAHSEE and how students have been doing on them since 2004. For every ethnicity, percentages have gone up every year since 04. Though it doesn't have anything to do with how effective the CAHSEE is in regard to literacy, it's still interesting to see. I'm sure there's a relationship with the improving scores and how the curriculum keeps changing in classrooms in order to focus on getting higher CAHSEE scores.
Evonne Villagomez

The Pros and Cons of Charter School Systems - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associat... - 2 views

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  • Evonne Villagomez on 18 Nov 10
     
    This article gives a description of how charter schools fucntion. The article goes on to discuss the positive qualities that charter schools offer in comparison to traditional public schools.
Evonne Villagomez

Jay Mathews - Five Ways to Boost Charter Schools - washingtonpost.com - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2007091800577.html

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  • These independent public schools give smart educators with fresh ideas a chance to show what they can do without the deadening hand of the local school system bureaucracy around their necks
  • Evonne Villagomez on 18 Nov 10
     
    This article argues that charter schools as a whole are not performing any better than traditional public schools. The auhtor gives a list of five recommendations as to how to improve charter schools.
  • Jennifer Flores on 19 Nov 10
     
    Evonne, I think it is so cool that you are doing your research paper on charter schools. I am taking another class with Kathee and we had a teacher come and talk to us about teaching at University High. What I gained from her presentation that there a lot of pros versus cons. I was totally considering teaching at a charter school after the presentation. Things seem so much easier than public schools, but that can be a myth. Let me know what you come up with. : )
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