Heres whats coming up tonight on cspan 3. Looked at challenges facing Higher Education. Including student debt, admission policies, Campus Safety and a number of other issues. Then the heads of the National Institutes of health and the food and Drug Administration talk about cures and innovation. After that, Virginia State senator creigh deeds, a year ago the governor attacked him before committing suicide. This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan, more reaction to the midterm elections. Sunday evening at 8 00 on q a, author and Television Host tavis smiley on his book author jeff chang on race in america. Friday at 8 00, on American History tv on cspan 3, medal of honor recipients reflect on their service in vietnam, world war ii and in afghanistan. And saturday at 8 00, the social prejudice immigrants faced during the 1800s. Find our Television Schedule at cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 20262640
Heres whats coming up tonight on cspan 3. Looked at challenges facing Higher Education. Including student debt, admission policies, Campus Safety and a number of other issues. Then the heads of the National Institutes of health and the food and Drug Administration talk about cures and innovation. After that, Virginia State senator creigh deeds, a year ago the governor attacked him before committing suicide. This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan, more reaction to the midterm elections. Sunday evening at 8 00 on q a, author and Television Host tavis smiley on his book author jeff chang on race in america. Friday at 8 00, on American History tv on cspan 3, medal of honor recipients reflect on their service in vietnam, world war ii and in afghanistan. And saturday at 8 00, the social prejudice immigrants faced during the 1800s. Find our Television Schedule at cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 20262640
Performing students to help prepare them for college. We read philosophical tests ranging and wrote revised College Level essays. At the same time i worked with the lowest performing students who had yet to pass the state tests of the with them we did mindless test prep. Even though i was really good at it getting 100 of those students to pass their exams in my final year doing it i was doing the students no favors. I think about a senior who could hardly write and struggled to read. Sure she passed the test but she was still ready, she was not ready for the Community College work she encountered that fall. When we focus efforts only helping struggling students jump over a hurd definitely mandated exams the learning an opportunity gap widens. My Current School harvest collegiate is a member of new york performing standard consortium of a group of 48 schools that offer more alternative model. We use more rigorous Testing Systems than state exams. Highstakes assessments are not on demand
Let me me before you keep thinking about your answer to do something else. To frame the question we are talking about questioning and accountability and that goes off into education and i have to refresh myself with 15 minutes even though ive been fooling about it for years. The federal government under no child left behind requires 17 standardized tests today to seven tests, seven in reading. Grade three through eight and once in high school. And then three tests in since i intend once in grades three through five and six through nine and once in high school there are 17 tests that must be used by the law as a primary means of determining the academic performance of the state. Florida reported that. There are 183 state and local tests in addition to the 17 federal tests and when this report they start to make a spotlight on the test is that maybe that is too many tests and they started getting fewer tests. So if we are talking about what kind of tests. Its whether whether it is the fe
Dollars are well spent. From the standpoint about the concerns of the services provided, we think when you allow states to weaken the standards, and we have seen again, how states have used waivers to, in effect, create a day facto weakening of standards standards. We are deeply concerned. Well, i understand the need for flexzblety. But if the only principle here is that the states can do whatever they want, then they should raise their entaxes to pay for it. Throwing billions of federal dollars at the states with no accountability for the states of how they spend taxpayer money is not what we were sent here to do. So, thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, senator warren. And i did welcome senator collins to the committee, which i should. Were delighted to have her back. She and senator cassidy are the only two members of the kmiet tee this year. Senator roberts. Number one, weve flipped the seating arrangement here. The lights are a little brighter, the heat is a little warme