http://www.lajollalight.com/2010/11/16/education-matters-arguing-with-a-rock-sta/ Enlightening La Jolla since 1913 Wed, 15 May 2013 18:19:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.lajollalight.com/2010/11/16/education-matters-arguing-with-a-rock-sta/#comment-12764 Marsha Sutton Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:15:44 +0000 http://lajollalight.mscsddev.com/?p=6244#comment-12764 Clarification: The day this column appeared, Diane Ravitch wrote to tell me that I had misunderstood her remarks about the assessment levels. To clarify, she was specifically referring to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, also known as the Nation's Report Card, which assesses through testing how American students perform in various subject areas. In her San Diego speech, she was objecting to how Davis Guggenheim, director of the movie “Waiting for Superman,” was misleading viewers when he claimed that eighth-grade students achieving below the NAEP’s “proficient” level in reading were working below grade level. Instead, Ravitch said that students at the “basic” level on the NAEP are working at grade level, not below it, and it is the students at the “below basic” level on the NAEP who are behind. The difference, she said, means that it’s 25 percent, not 70 percent as Guggenheim stated, who are below grade level. – Marsha Sutton Clarification: The day this column appeared, Diane Ravitch wrote to tell me that I had misunderstood her remarks about the assessment levels. To clarify, she was specifically referring to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, also known as the Nation's Report Card, which assesses through testing how American students perform in various subject areas. In her San Diego speech, she was objecting to how Davis Guggenheim, director of the movie “Waiting for Superman,” was misleading viewers when he claimed that eighth-grade students achieving below the NAEP’s “proficient” level in reading were working below grade level. Instead, Ravitch said that students at the “basic” level on the NAEP are working at grade level, not below it, and it is the students at the “below basic” level on the NAEP who are behind. The difference, she said, means that it’s 25 percent, not 70 percent as Guggenheim stated, who are below grade level. – Marsha Sutton

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