Here’s my story from today’s front page, on the circles of hell awaiting the roughly 100,000 high school juniors who will fail this week’s TAKS tests. (They’re the first class of Texas students who have to pass the TAKS in order to graduate. A whole heapin’ bunch of them won’t.)
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27 April | 17:44 | margaret
i found the TAKS surprisingly easy. reading should be even easier. of course, i'm not a junior, maybe their standards are different. i've always found standardized testing a good opportunity to read a good book, TAAS or TAKS. as far as i'm concerned, their isn't much difference.
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