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September 06, 2006
New York City Promotional Exams
WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN NY CITY?
By Profesor Martin N. Danenberg “El Quijote del GED”
The very same problems may be going on all over New York State and other states. Why are so many students failing promotional exams? This article raises the issue about the Chancellor’s ability to turn the schools around.
When one half of the glass is full and one half in empty, people show there optimism or pessimism by their responses to the question posed. With the cities’ students repeating the third, fifth, and seventh grades, we can see how many students have failed to pass the promotional exam and we can determine if the glass is full or empty.
First we must know the number of students who were eligible for summer school and that number is 15,981. Of those who did not pass the first exams, there were those who were promoted upon appeal and that number is 2,801 in the three grades. An additional 7,813 did not pass the test. So 10,614 never passed the test and may experience educational problems in the near future.
You buy cars from professionals that provide the best information to you about engine size, trunk space, miles per gallon, and more. Those who lie are probably selling you a lemon and then you get stuck. This is probably what is happening to parents and children with the instruction for promotional exams.
1. Do teachers receive an analysis of all the weaknesses of their summer school students before starting the actual instruction?
2. Do they teach according to the individual needs of each student or are they instructing only or mostly the entire class.
3. What is the strategy of each teacher during the final two weeks or so? Do they have a strategy for each student?
4. Are parents informed about the weaknesses of their children at the start of summer school so they can assist or have a family member or a tutor help out?
5. This probably goes on all over NY State, not just NYC.
6. The predictor test for the promotional exams of NYC’s third and seventy grade students would tell you what percentage of the children were expected to pass before classes started. If you get a figure that is around 50% of the students are expected to pass and only 50% passed, you can conclude that all of that instruction helped hardly anyone one and the summer program was unproductive.
7. Suggestions have to be made to parents, too, concerning the discipline of their children during the summer weeks, concrete suggestions that keep the children from lapsing into bad study habits.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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ISLANDIA, NY 11749
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