I can’t believe this didn’t make the daily newspaper today.
Bill Kacsor of AP reports:
The disclosure that part of Florida’s standardized assessment test was too easy last year overshadowed the release today of 2007 results showing continued improvement at almost every grade level.
The problems with last year’s FCAT resulted in inflated grades for many students and their schools and the promotion of some third graders who should have been held back. Just how many were affected will not be known until the 2006 tests are rescored.
Education officials also announced that starting next year all FCAT results will be independently audited before they are released.
Read the article in the Orlando Sentinel: State will rescore 2006 FCAT 3rd-grade reading tests