{"id":5228,"date":"2009-08-12T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2009-08-12T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:24:04","slug":"is_our_students_just_guessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/is_our_students_just_guessing.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Our Students Just Guessing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Bloomberg wants to rethink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/oh_goody_i_hear_theres_a_sale_on_bookcooks_going_on_downtown.html\">the exciting new test score results<\/a>? They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/08\/12\/2009-08-12_standardized_tests_being_passed_just_by_guessing.html\">impressive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Despite Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s plan to end &#8220;social promotion,&#8221; sixth-graders can score high enough on state English exams to move to the next grade &#8211; just by guessing.<\/p>\n<p>The number of correct answers needed to score a Level 2 to get promoted has sunk so low that a student can guess on the multiple choice section and leave the rest of the test blank.<\/p>\n<p>In seventh grade, students who guess need just one extra right answer to make the cut.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Bloomberg wants to rethink the exciting new test score results? They&#8217;re impressive: Despite Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s plan to end &#8220;social promotion,&#8221; sixth-graders can score high enough on state English exams to move to the next grade &#8211; just by guessing. The number of correct answers needed to score a Level 2 to get promoted has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}