This is EXHIBIT A and the reason I won't be visiting their omitting and obfuscating website when I stop purchasing their s*** rag.
I do a search on their website for an article in my printed paper (US student test scores show gains in reading and math), and this is what comes up:
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-- Your friends at Boston.com"Not the first time it's happened!
See: The Ole Sunday Switcheroo
Boston Globe Covers For Drunk Connecticut Judge
Boston Globe Censors Geithner's CFR Appearance
So I have to GO to the WEB again!
"Students show improvement in reading, math
The biggest gains came from low-achieving students. That is probably not an accident - the federal No Child Left Behind law and similar state laws have focused on improving the performance of minority and poor children, who struggle the most.
"The big pressure for the last six, eight years in this country has been on bringing the lower-performing students up," Winick said. "And what this long-term trend says is, generally, that's what's happening."
No Child Left Behind prods schools to improve test scores each year, so every student can read and do math on grade level by the year 2014. It holds schools accountable for progress among each group of kids, including those who have disabilities or are learning English.
No wonder whites feel discriminated against! Fucked over on everything and yet they are supposed to pay for it all.
The law was due for a rewrite in 2007, but the effort stalled in Congress. The Obama administration and Congress are gearing up now to make another attempt.
More Obama change for you: he's gonna keep NCLB! Yeah, this ain't no agenda or nothin'!
Hey, look, everyone wants their kids to go to a good school; however, that ain't coming from some state directives to take tests!!
I'm sorry; I once believed and loved state schools (college wasn't a total washout as an experience), but no longer. Not after all the lying and looting. As will everything else lately, I want LESS CENTRALIZATION and MORE LOCALIZATION!!!!
The House Education and Labor Committee chairman, Democratic Rep. George Miller of California, called it "deeply troubling" that high school students did not show improvement.
Well, when you are neglecting all the middle-class white kids and shoveling dumbing-down tv at them all the time, what do you expect?
"We must redouble our efforts to ensure that all students, at every age, in every state, get a world-class education that fully prepares them for college and careers," Miller said in a statement.
Careers in what? Outsourced jobs? H1-B's? Military?
Meanwhile, look at what is on the Globe's website version of the paper.
"Achievement gap for US students hasn't narrowed; Far more minorities score lower" by Sam Dillon, New York Times | April 29, 2009
NEW YORK - The achievement gap between white and minority students has not narrowed in recent years, despite the focus of the No Child Left Behind law on improving the scores of blacks and Hispanics, according to results of a federal test considered to be the nation's best measure of long-term trends in math and reading proficiency.
Between 2004 and last year, scores for young minority students increased, but so did those of white students, leaving the achievement gap stubbornly wide, despite President George W. Bush's frequent assertions that the No Child law was having a dramatic effect.
Although black and Hispanic elementary, middle, and high school students all scored much higher on the federal test than they did three decades ago, most of those gains were not made in recent years, but during the desegregation efforts of the 1970s and '80s. That was well before the 2001 passage of the No Child law, the official description of which is "An Act to Close the Achievement Gap."
Then MILLER was LYING?
And WHY DID the GLOBE STRIP the FIRST ITEM, 'eh?
They DON'T WANT to look TOO MUCH like LIARS!!!
"There's not much indication that [No Child Left Behind] is causing the kind of change we were all hoping for," said G. Gage Kingsbury, a testing specialist who is a director at the Northwest Evaluation Association in Portland. "Trends after the law took effect mimic trends we were seeing before. But in terms of watershed change, that doesn't seem to be happening."
So which article is the lie, and why did the Globe remove one?
The results no doubt will stoke debate about how to rewrite the No Child law when the Obama administration brings it up for reauthorization later this year.... Margaret Spellings, Duncan's predecessor under Bush, called the results a vindication of the No Child law.
Do teachers like it?
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