Originally published November 23 2003
Only one-third of students pass basic science exam
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Want evidence that our nation's public schools are utterly failing at educating students? Two-thirds of Washington's students failed that state's first science exam. To solve this problem, Washington will probably do what every other state does: they'll revise the test to make it easier, then tout the "improving test scores" next year!
Only about one-third of Washington's eighth- and 10th-graders passed
the state's first science exam, which focuses as much on scientific
thinking as science facts.
The 45-question exam covered physical science, earth and space and
life science, but also required students to know how to set up
scientific experiments and interpret them.
That means, for example, that students were asked to look at the
results of a chewing-gum experiment, and report things such as which
variable was controlled (remained the same).
"Inquiry, for us, is probably the most important thing we wanted in
this assessment," Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson
said yesterday at a news conference at Odle Middle School in Bellevue.
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