Reacting to Federal Guidelines, the state of NJ, which has been hi-lighted
as a role model for student testing by the Bush Administration's Dept. of
Ed, has released the following memo:
In response to Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, students will have to pass
arithmetic and reading to be promoted to the next grade level. In the hopes
that it will be uniformly adopted by all states, thus illuminating NJ to a
glorious front runner in education, it will be called:
the Federal Arithmetic and Reading Test (FART).
All students who can not pass a FART in 2nd grade will be re-tested in
grades 3-5 until such time as they are capable of achieving a FART score of
80%. If a student does not successfully FART by 5th grade, that student
shall be placed in a separate English program, the Special Mastery Elective
for Learning Language (SMELL).
If with this increased SMELL program the student cannot pass the required
FART, he or she can graduate to middle school by taking a 1 semester course
in Comprehensive Reading and Arithmetic Preparation (CRAP).
If by age 14, the student cannot FART, SMELL, or CRAP, he/she will earn
his/her promotion in an intensive one-week seminar. This is the Preparatory
Reading for Unprepared Nationally Exempted Students (PRUNES).
It is the opinion of the NJ Dept. o! f Education that an intensive week of
PRUNES will enable any student to FART, SMELL, or CRAP.
This revised provision of the student testing component of the House Bill
110 should help clear the air.
repost? see sig
as a role model for student testing by the Bush Administration's Dept. of
Ed, has released the following memo:
In response to Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, students will have to pass
arithmetic and reading to be promoted to the next grade level. In the hopes
that it will be uniformly adopted by all states, thus illuminating NJ to a
glorious front runner in education, it will be called:
the Federal Arithmetic and Reading Test (FART).
All students who can not pass a FART in 2nd grade will be re-tested in
grades 3-5 until such time as they are capable of achieving a FART score of
80%. If a student does not successfully FART by 5th grade, that student
shall be placed in a separate English program, the Special Mastery Elective
for Learning Language (SMELL).
If with this increased SMELL program the student cannot pass the required
FART, he or she can graduate to middle school by taking a 1 semester course
in Comprehensive Reading and Arithmetic Preparation (CRAP).
If by age 14, the student cannot FART, SMELL, or CRAP, he/she will earn
his/her promotion in an intensive one-week seminar. This is the Preparatory
Reading for Unprepared Nationally Exempted Students (PRUNES).
It is the opinion of the NJ Dept. o! f Education that an intensive week of
PRUNES will enable any student to FART, SMELL, or CRAP.
This revised provision of the student testing component of the House Bill
110 should help clear the air.
repost? see sig
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