The title was misleading ("goals exceed"), but after I read the story, I can see that what really happened is Quest's assessments show that they need to lower expectations for 2012-2013; they will need to push students and increase tutoring services.
Current overall progress measures
76% proficient in reading
86% proficient in math
2012 -2013 projected goals
85% proficient in reading
90% proficient in math
I appreciate that they are ambitious and constantly looking at the numbers in an effort to improve. Source
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The teacher of Physics at the high school should be replaced, the students can't even understand him as his English is not good plus he has a doctorate and teaches way above the students' so they have two strikes of not understanding either him when he speaks and the work is way too advanced. Physics should not be a freshman subject. The same way with the computer teacher at Quest middle school. The students have no idea what he is saying. If they are going to hire Turkish people, please make sure they can speak English fluently and don't impede the learning of our students. The computer class is way important and students deserve to be able to learn. Parent have complained, but nothing is done.
Emerge, perhaps instead of captioning the category as "Current Overall Progress Measures" it should be captioned as "PROJECTED YEAR END PROFICIENCY based upon current measurements"
I personally will be surprised if they meet even those new projections given the Board and Administration comments about the possible lack of ability to provide sufficient services and the transportation issues for students to be able to attend tutoring sessions.
Wow I am an American,who speaks english very well and my students do not understand physics. MAYBE, it's the students and not the teacher.....
Do you teach your freshman, physics? Last I heard is it is a junior or senior subject. This is what is being done at Quest. The main problem is that the teacher that teaches it can not be understood and it isn't fair to the students. Just like the students at the middle school who has a teacher that teaches computers, he can't be understood either. Again not fair to the students.
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