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color=#0000ff size=2>Love it !</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=187173407-13052008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>States are all
making their own mess of NOT providing curricula (merely "blueprints" for a
curriculum. Thinks..... would blueprints for sa house meet the housing
needs of Australia ?).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=187173407-13052008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Great idea that the Fed is at least doing some spot
checking re. how schools are actually succeeding. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=187173407-13052008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If the spot check is not good enough... suggest/ write/
commission a better one ! </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=187173407-13052008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Most critics just seem to say.... "Don't go there
!"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>====================================================<BR>Stephen Digby,
Learning Technology Manager<BR>mailto: </FONT><A
href="mailto:digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au"><FONT
size=2>digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</FONT></A><FONT size=2>
<BR>Cheltenham Secondary College </FONT><A
href="http://www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au/"><FONT
size=2>www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au</FONT></A><BR><FONT size=2>Ph: 613 955 55
955 Fx: 9555 8617 Mb:
0431-701-028<BR>====================================================<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT><FONT
face=arial size=2>I am a nutritional overachiever. Steven Wright </FONT>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jim
Maunder<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 13 May 2008 11:12 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Offtopic] National Tests<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>At 10:51 AM 13/05/2008, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">At 09:33 AM 13/05/2008, you
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Hi all,<BR><BR>So, over one
million Aussie kids in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are sitting<BR>for national
literacy and numeracy exams over these next three days.<BR><BR>Hmm .. does
it seem odd to anyone else to have national tests without<BR>a national
curriculum? That is .. an exam, without a curriculum.
Doh!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>From the web: <A
href="http://www.curriculum.edu.au/ccsite/default.asp?id=19875"
eudora="autourl">http://www.curriculum.edu.au/ccsite/default.asp?id=19875</A><BR>"The
results from these national literacy and numeracy <FONT
color=#ff0000><B>tests</B></FONT> will provide an important measure of how
Australian schools and students are performing in the areas of reading,
writing, spelling and numeracy. "<BR><BR>Seem reasonable to me, since it's
only a test. However, some might say that it is none of the Fed's business
because education is a state matter.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>And I've trawled the
web to find this quote from the first Simpsons episode I saw:<BR><BR>"Now, I
don't want you to worry, class. These tests will have no effect on your
grades. They merely determine your future social status and financial success.
If any."<BR>~Mrs. Crabapple <BR><BR>rgds again<BR>Jim<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite=""
type="cite">rgds<BR>Jim<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP>
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