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JON L: Should We Take MAP Testing????
A new form of testing, called MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) was introduced to students in grades 3-5 during the 2005-2006 school years. Last year (2006-2007), second grade students also participated*. MAP is a computerized adaptive test which helps teachers, parents, and administrators improve learning for all students and make informed decisions to promote a child's academic growth.
When will students be tested and how often?
**During the weeks of Aug. 28-Sept. 22, students will participate in several MAP testing sessions to assess Reading, Math, and Science. When taking the MAP test, the difficulty of each question is based on how well a student answers all the previous questions. As the student answers correctly, questions become more difficult. If the student answers incorrectly, the questions become easier. Although the tests are not timed, it usually takes students about one hour to complete each test. Students will repeat the tests two more times during the year, usually winter and spring semesters. This will continually assess student progress and adapt learning as needed.
*This year of last year?
**Present-Past Tense?
NINAS (Name?)
At about 3 in the afternoon on August 27th, a 17 year old girl, whose name is withheld, was on her way to a Delaware high school. She was a new driver who was following the speed limit. A driver behind her was tailgating her, and got angry because she refused to go faster. After a couple of miles, she pulled over to let him by. But the driver was not satisfied. He then pulled over in front of her car and got out. She put the window down about 5 inches so that she could speak to him, as she tried to understand what the problem was. Although she didn’t see, he had a knife with him. He told her that she tried to kill him, which was not the case. He then demanded the car keys, and when the girl refused, he punched her in the face. After that, he pulled out his knife, showed it to her, and then held it to her throat. Right before he went back to his car, he reached for the keys in the ignition and ripped them out. Witnesses tried to chase him, and by then another truck pulled up behind the girl. The witnesses called the police. They are still investigating now.
JON T
Palin Picked as McCain's Running Mate and Daughter is Pregnant!
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska was recently chosen as McCain’s running mate for the vice presidency. This is widely believed to be a move to appeal to both disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters and the main conservative base of the Republican Party, who have been somewhat dubious of McCain. However, Palin’s daughter, Bristol, age 17, is five months pregnant. “Life happens”, says McCain advisor Steve Schmidt, in response to the announcement. The McCain campaign is hoping that the fact that Bristol will marry the boy who impregnated her and will carry the child to full term, will appeal to the social conservative base.
In a respite from partisanship, Democratic candidate Barack Obama has said that “People’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits”. Joe Biden, Obama’s running mate, has issued similar statements.
Also, for the Alaska probe, a Republican-dominated state, legislature is investigating whether or not Palin dismissed public safety commissioner Walt Monegan because he refused to fire her sister’s ex-husband. Palin's claim is that Monegan intimidated her. Monegan has repeatedly denied such claims; however this claim did rate a "Mostly True" on the Truth-O-Meter run by Politifact, an independent organization. Now, since Palin has been picked for the vice presidency, five Republicans in the Alaska House of Representatives are suing to stop this investigation, despite a unanimous bipartisan vote to go forth with it.
Overall, Sarah Palin is a very interesting vice presidential choice who could really affect the outcome of this election.
******There are a lot of run-on sentences, is there any way we can fix that w/o ruining the article?
ISAIAH: Is DSTP Testing Necessary?
DSTP testing was created in the spring of 1998 by the department of education and Harcourt Brace Educational Measurement. DSTP is designed to serve as a measure of progress toward Delaware standards. It also insures that students can apply their academic skills to realistic everyday problems.
DSTP is necessary because it gives your teacher an idea of where you are in your learning. This makes it easier for the teachers because it tells them what you still need to learn and what you already know. Even though DSTP testing may be hard and stressful to some people, it will help you in the future.
Some helpful tips for the DSTP are to stay calm and try to do your best. It is also important that you get plenty of rest and eat a good breakfast, which helps your brain. It is important to get a good night sleep because if you don't, you'll most likely fall asleep during the test.
PHILIP: Pictures without a Camera
Stephen Wiltshire, a not-so-normal person in London, is, well, not so normal. He is a college student, majoring in visual art. Not only is his art spectacular, but his memory is photographic. His art is sights he’s seen, everyday things that he liked. He plays piano and you would think that he’d be great, knowing that his memory is incredible. But, if he messes up on one thing, it’s impossible to fix. When the media found out about his photographic memory, they wanted proof. So they took him on a 15-minute helicopter ride around London. When he got back, he was told to draw what he saw on the ride. He received a very large piece of paper, and started to draw. When he finished, the media wanted to see that he didn’t just draw buildings and houses. So, they resolved the problem by calling in random people to find their houses on the drawing. All of the people found their houses and apartments and said they look almost exactly the same. Stephen was asked to draw other cities, such as Rome and Tokyo, which he did. “It’s autism,” people say. “It’s not natural.”
Stephen does have signs of autism; eating the exact same lunch every single day is not really normal but, who cares?
After Stephen did the tasks the media asked, they made it into a program called “The Human Camera” and he still makes art today.
NELSON
BREAKING NEWS!!! WHALE ANCESTOR FOUND!!!
At last! Finally, we now know where whales come from. These creatures are believed to be the last amphibious evolutionary link to whales! Recent discoveries prove that whales were once odd looking rodents.
Who would have ever guessed that they were related? Modern fossil finds prove the evolutionary similarities between the two. It has long been perceived that the closest relative was the hippo… until now. Still, some researchers have been troubled that hippos seem to have lived in the wrong part of the world and popped up too recently to be a whale ancestor.
Whales were not always like the modern day ones, but more of a pig or dog with fins (much bigger of course!). This newly discovered creature is called “Indohyus”. Further testing is needed to support other hypotheses.
*End: News
ARSENIC IN WATER MAY CAUSE DIABETES
Recent studies show that levels of arsenic have been found in water and contain Type Two Diabetes. Arsenic is a poisonous element that smells like almonds. In another recent study of seven hundred and seventy-seven adults, shows increased chances of having diabetes, just from drinking local water supplies. It probably dissolved into the water from high pollution levels. Some are trying to prevent this from happening by filtrating tainted water supplies as much as possible. Sea dwellers such as fish also have increased nontoxic organic arsenic, probably by swimming in the water. It is possible that people with diabetes excrete more arsenic. The U.S.A. has even lowered arsenic in public water systems for belief of it being a cause of cancer.
Nelson Hernandez
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ED/JON L.
''Hi YouTube! My name is Kiki and today I'm going to show you how to cheat on a test -- the effective way.” A teenage girl called ''Kiki'', if that is her real name, has discussed a new way to cheat on a test! *This is not ethical at all, to my opinion!*
She demonstrates her technique, slipping a small piece of paper with the answers in a clear-tubed pen as she rationalizes her reasons for cheating.
"I know it's not a good thing to cheat," she said. "It's academic dishonesty, blah, blah, blah. But I think everyone has at least done it once."
Kiki's video is one of several dozen on the popular internet site, YouTube, that show detailed ways to cheat on tests. Students no longer conceal answers in the sole of a shoe or the underside of a baseball cap's bill. In the age of continual access to the internet and laser-precision printers, cheating has gone high-tech.
And some techniques, like Kiki's, come with a guarantee.
"This is 98 percent effective," she said. "Hopefully, any of my teachers don't see this video. It would be very awkward."
Elizabeth Losh, writing director of the human core course at University of California, Irvine, knows the cheating videos well. As a teacher of digital rhetoric, she analyzes how media affects society. The YouTube videos are really a way for people to boast, she said.
"It's a whole kind of tradition on YouTube -- how do you subvert something, how do you break into something," she said. "In some ways, I'm not surprised that the genre has evolved."
Some of the modern cheating techniques are so time-consuming that students would be better off simply studying, Losh said.
"I can laugh about the inventiveness, but it's sad more than anything else," she said. Another thing that she discussed, was a website to go to in order to help you hide your answers. It was said that a common way kids cheat on their test was by printing the answers of the quiz/test on false soda bottles. This is all I know so far and when I receive more information about this, I will rewrite this article. It won’t be giving away any private information or which website to go to.
*Should we keep this opinion…*
ED/ JON L.
2006 Midterm elections held in America proved to be a bloody nose for the Republican Party. On November 6th, 2006, the Republican Party held a majority in both the House and Senate. By November 8th, the Democrats had a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. With two years left for his presidency, George W. Bush would have to work with a Democrat Congress. Political pundits have already labeled the president a ‘lame duck’, though in the past, a president from one party has worked with a Congress controlled by the other party. The day following the results, President Bush stated that he would work with Ms. Nancy Pelosi, the new Speaker of the House, to ensure that legislation was not halted. Bush claimed that both could work with the other. Prior to the midterms, the Republicans had a healthy majority of 30 in the House. After the November elections, the Democrats had a majority of 32 – with the Republicans winning 196 seats and the Democrats 228. In the Senate, the Republicans, at the last round of elections in November 2004, had 55 Senators while the Democrats had 44. After the November 2006 midterms the Democrats had 49 Senators – the same as the Republicans. However, with 2 Independent Senators expected to support the Democrats, the Republican ascendancy in the Senate appears to be over. One of the Independents is Senator Joseph Lieberman – a former Democrat Vice-Presidential running mate of Al Gore in 2000. It is generally assumed that he will go with the Democrat flow.
PHILIP
Cars could soon come with parental controls that limit what younger drivers can do with a car.
Developed by Ford, the “MyKey” system limits a car's top speed, how loud its stereo can be, and sounds warnings if seatbelts are not being worn. So to get things straight, the cars can have adjustable limits.
Ford will introduce the controls on some US makes of cars that are due to first show up in 2009, but go on sale in 2010.
The Ford Focus will be the first to have MyKey, but the car maker said it would become a standard feature.
The main element of the MyKey system is to limit the top speed of a car to 80mph.
Ford says other options allow parents to limit the volume on the car stereo and make the car sound a continuous alert if drivers and passengers are not wearing a seatbelt.
Other options will let parents decide if warning tones should sound if a car goes faster than 45, 55 or 65 mph.
Another feature is that you can make the car require a driver’s license of some type, like your own or your child’s. "It’s making use of existing technology, and through the magic of software, we're able to build features on top of the features we already have," said Jim Buczkowski, Ford's director of electronic and electrical systems engineering.
Ford's compact version of the Focus, which is due to go on sale in 2010, will be the first to sport MyKey. But a spokesman said it would spread to all cars in the Ford, Lincoln and Mercury range as models are updated.
"Research we've done has shown that speeding is a major factor in teen crashes, especially novice teen drivers," Anne McCartt, senior vice president for research at the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, told the AP news agency.
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