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City Room: How Exposure to Farm Life Might Raise Test Scores
Gothamist: City Kids Lack Critical Farm Knowledge For State Tests
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Heard of gender/racial bias in standardized tests. Is there urban vs. rural bias? http://bit.ly/10GLWk (via @treuting @UrbanEducation) #fb 10/25/2009 |
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Generally, yes unfortunately! RT @UrbanEducation RT @treuting You've heard ... but is there an urban vs. rural bias? http://bit.ly/10GLWk 10/25/2009 |
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RT @ileducprof @UrbanEducation: You've heard of gender& racial bias on standardized tests but urban vs rural bias? http://bit.ly/10GLWk 10/25/2009 |
How Exposure to Farm Life Might Raise Test Scores
City Room —
New York State’s English and math exams include several questions each year about livestock, crops and the other staples of the rural experience that some educators say flummox city children, whose knowledge of nature might begin and end at Central Park. On the state English test this year, for instance, third graders were asked questions relating to chickens and eggs. In math, they had to count sheep and horses. So leaving no possible test point unexplored , the educators at the Harlem Success Academy, a fast-growing chain of four charter schools known for a relentless ...
City Kids Lack Critical Farm Knowledge For State Tests
Gothamist —
While the NY Times' story on a Harlem charter school's kindergarten visit to the Queens County Farm Museum might just seem like a human interest story, there's actually a serious reason behind it: The state's English and math tests seem biased towards kids with knowledge of farms. There are "several questions each year about livestock, crops and the other staples of the rural experience that some educators say flummox city children, whose knowledge of nature might begin and end at Central Park. On the state English test this year, for ...
