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Chappell’s
Corner
Pilot Program
features students using remote devices to provide answers
Thanks to the grant-writing skills of Headwaters Grant Writer Amy Silver O’Leary and our Technology Resource Teacher Amy Gubler, we have received a grant award for Qwizdom Interactive Tools: 25 remote devices for students to anonymously & electronically provide classroom responses. We’re excited that we now have this technology to enhance student participation and learning. If these devices are effective, we will seek grant funds to purchase additional classroom sets.
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) data
posted on net by State prematurely?
Last Friday, the Virginia Department of Education posted results of 2005-06 SOL tests for all schools. The Department also posted the annual “Adequate Yearly Progress” (AYP) ratings for each school. Across the State pass rates for the new 6 th and 7th grade SOL Math tests given in May 2006 were extremely low. Rappahannock was no exception. In Rappahannock and across the State many students who passed their 5th grade Math SOL with flying colors failed the 6 th or 7th grade test.
Rappahannock Superintendent Bob Chappell feels the release of this data may be premature since State Superintendent Billy Cannaday, Jr., has put a Task Force in place to examine the apparent problems with the 6th and 7th grade tests. “I am not convinced that the 6th and 7th grade Math tests were valid and reliable,” said Chappell. “Until the State provides evidence that the tests
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