Do remedial classes in high school, have to take standerdized tests with the rest of the school?
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it depend on what state your are in. here in Texas where i am they take the SDAA. they dont take the TAKS here. i hope this helps
215235
Are you addressing the high school exit exam?  If so, I agree that every child is different and should be recognized personally, but this is not for recognition.  This test is to see if you learned in high school.  That may not be everyone's bag, but that is what the test is for.  So what if you don't pass it?  Maybe your thing is music, or art, or being an entrepreneur...  That is where you will get your recognition.
586959
no.everyone has the rit to get admitted.first come first served basis should do.no testing with parent knowledge necessary.
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I'd suggest you talk with your school counselor, who is likely in charge of administering standardized tests in your school.  The counselor can tell you which test(s) are required by the state and which others are common in schools in your state.\n\nThe other likely source would be the website of the state department of education.
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no, not at all. The special ed students shouldnt be writing papers for other students, that violates proably half of their IEP's and she can be sued and fired. The test answers we had that problem with our school on the teacher handing them all the answers so they would pass and not get held back. That again violates the conduct and you can basically take that to the higher ups, State education. :)
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it depends on the discipline many times they have to take test to see if you learned the same things that people in the US did.  Like doctors if you go to medical school in another country you have to take a test here for your degree to be accepted.  If you are going to college in the US from another country you  have to take two test one is to see if you know what you need to know and one is to see if your English is good enough that you can understand a teacher in a class room
560897
Many educators are highly focused on state tests because this is all they hear from administrators and people of the community. Administrators and society expect schools to achieve the desired goal of success for all students.
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Yes.  The point of letting kids be exempt from physical education is because they are already doing physical activity.  I was an athlete in High school.  This was only allowed for varsity athletes.  For some sports, practice would start during the last period of the day, so you would either have PE or Study Hall during that last period.  If you had study hall, the school would change your PE class to study hall.  As soon as the season was over, the students have to go back to PE.  This is basically designed so the athletes can take study hall instead of PE, because athletes spend countless hours a day training while having to keep grades up at the same time.
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My HISD has classes for the rural schools but that is it.  Public schools do not have classes in my area in Michigan.
3056
that means that you have done a high school course in middle school.  Which are tranferable and means that you do not have to take it in high school.
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I believe you have to wait to take it until you are a junior in high school. then you can retake it as a senior if you wish.
894728
One reason we need standardized tests is because in American high schools nearly everyone gets top marks - The average GPA for an American high school student is about a 3.4. And many schools have stopped ranking because they don't want to hurt the kids feelings or deal with the hassles that come from overbearing parents who don't like Junior's grades and are ready to complain anytime their little genius gets less than an A.  \n\nSo, how are the colleges supposed to tell whether a kid actually learned anything in high school. If there are 10,000 applicants for 1000 positions, how do you decide? No college decides on SATs alone, but if you have a kid who supposedly got all As and Bs and who then shows up with mediocre SAT scores, then that is a bad sign. And another sign is a kid who supposedly took AP courses, but never took any AP tests.\n\nAt some point you have to be able to say, this kid actually knows something, and can prove it on a straightforward set of questions about basic things that he should know. Getting mediocre SAT scores, and then graduating from a mediocre college with mediocre grades is very predictable. In general, people who are able to handle the immense workload at the top colleges had pretty high SATs... check the websites at the Ivies, Duke, Stanford, Chicago for the levels these smart, hardworking kids made in their SATs.
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Standardized tests are a waste of time.... increased student achievement and teacher accountability can be more easily, and cheaply, implemented through making a passing grade an 80% instead of a 60%, portfolio documentation of post-tests for each unit showing 80% or better mastery of the standard/benchmarks being addressed, and justification of advancement rather than justification of retention. Smaller class sizes would give the teachers the individual time with the students needed to ensure adequate progress... and justify placement in special education with even smaller class sizes and specialized instruction and curriculum if the student is not passing.\n\nThat being said.... the worst thing possible is for schools to be "teaching to the test." The concept of the testing is supposed to be a random sampling of skills based directly on grade-level state standards and benchmarks... and supposedly if the teachers have been teaching the standards and benchmarks, the kids will pass. However, the tests usually are a bit above grade level in their reading levels, vocabulary, and content expectations. They usually are given long before the end of the school year, so that teachers have to make the best guess they can about which benchmarks to cover before the test, and which after. The tests make the part of the school year that "counts" to be only five months rather than nine.\n\nIf you want to be a "school leader," help with curriculum mapping to ensure that benchmark instruction is maximized toward testing expectations, while maintaining effective instruction, re-teaching, student practice, and multi-sensory activities; instruction of metacognitive strategies for test taking for the students; and instruction of general education teachers in multiple learning strategies including those best used for gifted students (compaction, acceleration, depth of information, higher-order questioning, organizational skills), special education students and lower performing regular ed students (task analysis, phonics decoding approaches at all grade levels, multi-sensory, etc.) and ELL students (modeled and guided grammar, phonics decoding approaches, cultural and idiomatic expression, etc.).
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Not applied myself in High School
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It depends on which tests/assessments you mean.  If you mean the regular weekly tests given over classwork, then no...teachers need to constantly monitor how well their students are gaining the skills/knowledge to see what needs re-teaching.\n\nIf you mean the state standardized tests and No Child Left Behind demands for performance, HECK YEAH IT'S TOO MUCH!!!\n\nWe spend 3 weeks every March testing, testing, testing, instead of teaching...and now they want to add Kinder, First, and Second graders to the formal state tests.  It is just too much, too high-stress for the kids, and takes too much time away from instruction. As a special education teacher, I can chart regression of skills issues to determine need for summer school over the testing window. My kids fall farther behind doing tests that they are not ready for.\n\nIf we want higher accountability, then have each student maintain a portfolio of work, and make passing grades B's rather than D's (80% mastery of material rather than 60%).
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No, you probably just need to have your diploma translated into English and somehow i guess via placement tests or whichever way the college administration asks for, convince them that you dont need to retake all you courses.
655246
yes.  we did it in high school