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New York To Scrap Literacy Test For Teachers In The Name Of Diversity
dailycaller.com ^ | 3/12/17 | Peter Hasson/ap

Posted on 03/13/2017 12:10:34 PM PDT by ColdOne

Prospective teachers in New York will likely no longer have to pass a basic reading and writing literacy exam, the Associated Press is reporting.

The state’s Board of Regents is expected to ditch the Academic Literacy Skills Test in part because black and Hispanic teaching candidates struggled to pass the exam, according to the AP.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arth; blacks; hispanics; literacy; nyc; teachers
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To: billyboy15

Ed ZACKERY!!


61 posted on 03/13/2017 5:19:50 PM PDT by WENDLE (We said REPEAL the socialism NOT replace with other socialism.!! RINOCARE GOES NOWHERE)
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To: Twotone

All were on the Dean’s list.


62 posted on 03/13/2017 6:01:40 PM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: ColdOne
“The state’s Board of Regents is expected to ditch the Academic Literacy Skills Test in part because black and Hispanic teaching candidates struggled to pass the exam, according to the AP.”

Education majors are generally people who could not pass any higher-paying major. Affirmative action guarantees that any minority who is at all literate will be guided into Law or such, leaving Education with the bottom of the minority barrel.

63 posted on 03/14/2017 3:15:57 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: ColdOne

Very sad. I graduated from a NY State school in 1966 and the state standards were very high then. From what I’ve heard, it was about 10 years later that major dumbing-down made inroads there.


64 posted on 03/14/2017 3:20:22 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds." A. Einstein)
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To: ColdOne

We don’t need no edukashion.


65 posted on 03/14/2017 3:29:57 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: mass55th

Know what you mean. I have worked with blacks and hispanics that are among the sharpest people I have ever met. The Regents are doing folks a great disservice. They reinforce a negative stereotype by insisting on placing people in positions they are not ready for. So sad because it will hurt those people in the long run. Plus the problems it causes the kids. What a mess New York has become.


66 posted on 03/14/2017 4:29:22 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Twotone
My Daughter attended a SUNY College in upstate N.Y. and she told me that the black girls would try to look at her paper when exam time came around. One of them had the temerity to ask her to move her arm because she could not see the answer.
67 posted on 09/03/2017 11:03:33 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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