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SLATE - NEWS FROM THE BOARD (HOLD THIS FOR ONLY 2 SECS)		(music full)
	
SOT NSG 1032		(sot nancy grasmick)
'This is the 2nd year of the assessment...'	
SLATE - MSA SCIENCE RESULTSSOT LESLIE WILSON ('LES 'NCLB REQUIRES' 1127(THEN COVER W/THE GRAPHIC FROM THE SOUNDBITE)		(sot leslie Wilson)
'No Child Left Behind' requires each state to test students in the elementary, middle and high school levels.'	
SOT LESLIE WILSONCOVER WITH KIDS IN CLASS -- USE 4:3 VIDEO AND VERTICAL SIDEBAR GRAPHICS:        GRADES (VERTICAL)         (PIC OF KIDS BETWEEN)        5 & 8 (VERTICAL)         HIGH SCHOOL  (VERTICAL)         (PIC OF KIDS BETWEEN)        BIOLOGY (VERTICAL) 		(sot leslie wilson & sound effex)
'Maryland has chosen to administer those tests in grades five and eight, and then our biology test serves as our high school measure.'	
HOLDING GRAPHIC & KIDS         120,000  (VERTICAL)         (PIC OF KIDS BETWEEN)        70% ONLINE  (VERTICAL) 		(narrator track)
these test results involve fifth and 8th graders, and this year maryland tested more than 120-thousand students. 	
		nearly 70-percent took the test online.	
SOT LESLIE WILSONCG - LESLIE WILSON         ASS'T. SUP'T., DIV. OF ASSESSMENT		(sot leslie wilson)
'We have a mix of multiple choice and constructed response items and we report them in terms of basic, proficient, or advanced levels...'	
GRAPHIC ARROW DOWN		(narrator track)
	
SCIENCE - GRADE 5*2008 - 64.1%2009 - 63.7% * PROFICIENT OR ADVANCED		THE SCIENCE RESULTS IN GRADE FIVE SLIPPED A BIT FROM LAST YEAR -- FROM 64-POINT-ONE proficient or advanced -- TO 63-POINT-SEVEN PERCENT.	
GRAPHIC ARROW UPSCIENCE-GRADE 8*2008 -61.4%2009 - 65.3% PROFICIENT OR ADVANCED		BUT EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS REVERSED THAT TREND -- MOVING FROM 61-point-four-PERCENT proficient IN OH-EIGHT TO 65-point-three-PERCENT THIS YEAR. 	
BOARD CUTS		the results proved a springboard for a wide-ranging board discussion.	
		charlene dukes asks about grant money that seems to produce results, but then the grant runs out.	
SOT CHARLENE DUKESCG - CHARLENE DUKES         MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot charlene dkes )
'What are we requiring systems to do, particularly if something they're doing is succeeding and the only way they think they can continue it is if somehow somebody has more money to give them.'	
SOT COLLEEN SEREMETCG - COLLEEN SEREMET         ASS'T., SUP'T., DIV. OF INSTRUCTION		(sot colleen sermet)
'We have actually worked very hard to try to sustain those ... to sort of ease off the dependency on the federal grant by building in some of the local professional development funds....'	
DONNA CUT SHOT		(narrator track)
donna staton asks about lower performing subgroups.	
SOT DONNA STATEN 2025CG - DONNA STATON         MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot donna staten)
'African American students -- Hispanic students -- who aren't performing as well ... what's going on there?'	
SOT CAROL ANN HEATHCG - CAROL ANN HEATH         ASS'T. SUP'T., SPECIAL EDUCATION		(sot carol ann heath)
'I can answer for Special Education because we have created this year what we call an IDEA scorecard, and we can look at student performance across all the areas that are assessed by disability, by grade, and by ethnicity/race, so we have some information, the data was just released and it'll take us a while to sort of do that kind of analysis...'	
BOARD SHOT -- JAMES		(narrator track)
board president james degraffenreidt says it's probably less about subgroups than about economic and social environs.	
SOT JAMES DEGRAFFENREIDTCG - VOICE OF: JAMES DEGRAFFENREIDT         PRES., MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot james degraffenreidt)
'We talk about these subgroups, African Americans, Hispanics, the services groups, I wonder whether those groupings and keeping data on that basis tells us enough to matter, in how we teach or what we need to change, because I do think that resources, location, socio-economic circumstance say more about those num -- what's behind those numbers than whether somebody's African American, Hispanic or in one of the services groups.'	
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SLATE - NATIONAL TEST RESULTSSOT MARY GABLE 4746CG - MARY GABLE         DIR., INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS		(sot mary gable)
'Our students in high school are really thinking about college and career readiness -- as we were just talking about...'	
SOT MARY GABLE		(sot mary gable)
'So they're doing those things that let us know that they are deciding what it is they're going to do and what it is they have to do about that.' (tight oq)	
FILE KIDS IN CLASSROOM		(narrator track)
The state Department of education says high schoolers prepare better these days -- for college.	
FREEZE & DARKENADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP)MASTERY LEVEL  - UP 9.1%        TESTS		on a-p (advanced placement) tests -- the number of marylanders scoring at the mastery level increased nine-point-one percent in 2009.	
ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP)  PARTICIPANTS  - UP 7%        TESTS		the number of participants jumped by seven percent over last year.	
ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP)  AFRICAN AMERICANS - UP 11.1%		minority test-takers increase and improve.	
MASTERY LEVEL - UP 17.2%        TESTS		the percentage of african american students scoring at the mastery level soared more than 17-percent.	
BOARD SHOTS		the board learned students are increasingly taking the a-c-t test -- which also shows an increase in participation.	
GRAPHIC SAT SCORES WITH UNDERLINING IN RED		and although s-a-t scores remain relatively flat -- educators believe part of the reason is that students are taking the a-c-t -- instead of taking the s-a-t a second time.	
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SLATE - BOARD BRIEFSSOT LESLIE WILSON		(music full)
'It's basically a five year trend... and it shows significant decrease in dropouts at each grade level...'	
GRAPHIC SHOWING DROPOUTS		(narrator track)
in board briefs -- the dropout rate trends lower for most subgroups -- with the notable exception of american indians.	
CUBE WIPE SOT NANCY GRASMICKCG - NANCY S. GRASMICK         MD SCHOOLS SUP'T.		(sot nancy grasmick)
'And what we're doing is attempting to pull together the health officers and the superintendents so that we are prepared, whatever may happen.'	
BOARD CUTS		(narrator track)
and maryland gears up to confront the h-one-n-one flu -- if it happens.	
		this has been news from the board, with msde tv.	
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