On idealistic stupidity that is… Standard tests for special ed draw fire
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Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which requires schools to test students and report the scores to show that they are meeting high academic standards, nearly all special-education students have to take the same tests as others their age. And they are expected to score on par with their peers by 2013-14.
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“The reality is that for too long, we haven’t expected enough and we’ve made too many excuses that these kids cannot learn,” said Robert Pasternack, the U.S. Department of Education’s assistant secretary for special education.
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