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makemyday@worldnet.att.net wrote in message news:<3DD391C1.D1E6EFBB@worldnet.att.net>...
> http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/5181305p-6190289c.html
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> The Associated Press
> Published 5:10 p.m. PDT Wednesday, November 13, 2002
> 
> SACRAMENTO(AP) - California's racial subgroups have been showing big
> improvements in math and reading, although black and Hispanic students
> continue to score below national standards, according to a report 
> by the state Department of Education. [....]
> 
> Black students posted the lowest scores with only 21 percent
> of 11th graders scoring above the 50th percentile, only one percentage
> point up from 1998 scores.
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> 
> WOWEE! Even with all the cheating, one crummy percent improvement
> was all they could show...
> 
> ***************** Re-run of earlier IQ-75 expose' ********************
> Report: Teachers Helped Pupils Cheat
> By Associated Press  June 14, 2002, 4:33 PM EDT
> 
> EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Teachers helped students
> cheat on standardized tests at a public school that has
> won national recognition for educating poor and
> minority students, the San Jose Mercury News
> reported Friday. 
> 
> Eleven former students at Costano School in East Palo
> Alto told the newspaper that teachers either gave pupils
> answers or strongly hinted at them. One former teacher
> acknowledged the practice. Another said the
> administration encouraged it. 
> 
> "This was the message: `You do whatever you need to
> do to get those scores up,'" said former teacher
> Charles Salter. [...]
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> 
> Even feeding IQ-75z the answerz duzn't work....

How much money was wasted in trying to overcome a million years of
breeding by doses of Sesame Street?

Blair