Re: Scoring writing in Texas

From: Peter Smagorinsky (psmagorinsky@home.com)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 11:34:24 PDT


The story must be a few days old and removed to their archives; my regrets.
Peter
At 10:43 AM 4/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>A liitle gem... Peter, the url wouldn't connect, any chance you could post
>it again, thanks
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>On Monday, April 23, 2001, at 09:48 AM, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
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>>>''This is a test to see if they can write, and that's all,''
>>>said Jeffrey Nellhaus, the state's associate commissioner for testing.
>>>''We won't measure the feasibility of their arguments.''
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>Lest they measure the feasibility of his argument.
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>>>[The tests will be graded by teams of specially trained teachers this
>>>summer, who will look for quality of writing, organization and use of
>>>punctuation, spelling and grammar.]
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>>><http://www.boston.com/dailynews/102/region/MCAS_essay_questions_released_:.sht>http://www.boston.com/dailynews/102/region/MCAS_essay_questions_released_:.sht
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