#nwea

So, uh … the winter NWEA went pretty damn well. I’m cherrypicking here, of course, as this class provided my most impressive results, but four of the six looked pretty damn good and the other two weren’t necessarily bad, just not impressive. The rest of the week was a damn mess; I had a stomach bug that kept me out Tuesday afternoon (I actually cut out at lunch!) and Wednesday, and of course the…

In which that might have worked, maybe, but I doubt it

We started the winter administration of the NWEA today. I’ve talked about this test a couple of times before, but the super-short version is that we give it three times a year and it is designed to mostly measure growth, which means that it gets around many of my normal gripes against standardized testing. I know that usually the first post of the month is the Monthly Reads for the previous…