Miserably.
Rick Roach, who is in his fourth term on the Board of Education in Orange County Florida, recently took the Florida 10th Grade FCAT and failed miserably.
Roach who has a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees and 15 credits towards a doctorate also helps over see an organization of close to 22,000 employees with a budget of $3 Billion.
The original blog post in the Washington Post can be found here.
Columnist Valerie Strauss offered a followup here.
These columns speak for themselves, and echo my sentiment regarding the FCAT. It's time we put an end to this 1/4 of a Billion Dollar annual fiasco, stop teaching for tests, and return to fully educating our kids.
Kudos to Rick Roach for taking the test and publicizing the results.
Feel free to offer your opinion below in the comment section, or add your vote to the poll below.
Rick Roach, who is in his fourth term on the Board of Education in Orange County Florida, recently took the Florida 10th Grade FCAT and failed miserably.
Roach who has a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees and 15 credits towards a doctorate also helps over see an organization of close to 22,000 employees with a budget of $3 Billion.
The original blog post in the Washington Post can be found here.
Columnist Valerie Strauss offered a followup here.
Kudos to Rick Roach for taking the test and publicizing the results.
Feel free to offer your opinion below in the comment section, or add your vote to the poll below.
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May be someone should ask your quest speaker if he is will to take the FCAT and give his score.
ReplyDeleteMr Roach has himself a case of early onset...
ReplyDeleteHe knew none of the answers on the math test?! He forgot about parallel lines and equal angles? He forgot 5 is the square root of 25?
He should resign, begin to simplify and start to leave himself notes I guess.
Anonymous (who I can only assume is one of the perpetrators of this Circus Maximus that we call FCAT), have you even read the test? It has absolutely NOTHING to do with simple questions and answers like you've mentioned.
DeleteSample questions for the FCAT are available at fcat.fldoe.org. The very first sample math question asks about a rhombus shown on the page. It then gives four possible answers, ALL of which are correct, and are used in the proof you would use to define a rhombus. How can you pass a test in which ALL of the possible answers are correct, yet only ONE of them is correct correct?!?