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Test scores plummet — so Florida drops passing grade

Florida gave a new standardized writing test to students in various grades and the scores were worse than awful. Only 27 percent of fourth-graders had proficient scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), which was down from last year’s 81 percent.

State education officials panicked, and at an emergency meeting last week, the Florida Board of Education decided in a 4-3 vote that the best thing to do was to lower the passing score on this exam.

Let me repeat that: In order to make sure that students succeeded on the test, the passing grade was lowered.

photo via flickr:CC | Dowbiggin

AHAHAHAHAHAHA I WOULD POST THIS ON REAL NEWS BUT THIS IS JUST TOO FUCKING FNUNNYY SO IT GOES ON NOHETERO AHAHSFHAWDSJS OMG

why does everyone SUCK at problem-solving

i fucking hate florida

are you kidding me

are you actually

kidding me oh m yG DO 

a group of real life state education officials

a group of people whose job it is to oversee state education

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Some of my favorite signs from Harrisburg today

Amazing!

they’re funny because they’re all true

Go PA!!

harrisburg im proud of you

sasscrackers:

platosatlantis:

Montreal student protesters baiting riot police with donuts.

aaaaand heres canada

thedailywhat:

Marketing Campaign of the Day: As if it weren’t enough that North Carolina already doesn’t recognize same-sex unions, the state votes next Tuesday on a ballot measure that reads: “Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized by this State.”

This ad campaign, by Winston-Salem agency The Variable, plays on segregation-era discrimination to shock voters into voting down the offensive legislation, called Amendment 1: “On May 8th, make history. Don’t repeat it.”

Yes, please.

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What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids. 

barackobama:

Because crushing student loan debt isn’t as fun as it used to be: here’s how President Obama’s making college more affordable.

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thedailywhat:

POTUS Pic of the Day: So the President walks into a bar… and he meets Madalyn Starkey, a University of Colorado student who will forever be known as the girl who posed for the greatest photo ever taken of a sitting president.

Perfect reaction is perfect.

thedailywhat:

CISPA Vote of the Day: CISPA — the most unpopular bill on the Internet, no matter what Facebook says — passed late Thursday with a 248-168 vote in the GOP-controlled House.

What you might have missed, helpfully pointed out by Forbes‘ Andy Greenberg:

Even before it passed, the House voted to amend the bill to actually allow even more types of private sector information to be shared with government agencies, not merely in matters of cybersecurity or national security, but in the investigation of vaguely defined cybersecurity “crimes,” “protection of individuals the danger of death or serious bodily harm,” and cases where that involve the protection of minors from exploitation.

The CISPA fight now heads to the Democrat-controlled Senate. If the bill manages to reach his desk, President Obama has threatened a veto.

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thedailywhat:

In Case You Missed It of the Day: In which Obama out-Clintons ol’ Bill, cements place in late-night history as POTUS With The Mostest.

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