{"id":5259,"date":"2012-02-28T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2012-02-28T12:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:30:51","slug":"south-florida-school-tests-fcat-placebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/28\/south-florida-school-tests-fcat-placebo\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida School Tests FCAT Placebo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5260\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Parents and students protest outside then-Gov. Jeb Bush's Miami office in this 2003 photo.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2021860.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5260\" title=\"Students Protest Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2021860-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2021860-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2021860-220x171.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2021860.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\"> <\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and students protest outside then-Gov. Jeb Bush&#39;s Miami office in this 2003 photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A South Florida school is feeding students &#8220;FCAT power bars&#8221; and hoping the apple-flavored cereal bar gives students more confidence facing the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/fcat\/\">Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test<\/a>, according to the <em>Sun-Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The district says they don&#8217;t want kids at Palm Beach County&#8217;s Hagen Road Elementary School to take the test on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n<p>But check out this quote from Robert De Gennaro a teacher and union representative, who argues basing teacher performance on the FCAT only encourages the power bar and other ideas. School districts must base 50 percent of a teacher&#8217;s evaluation on FCAT scores.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you were given a choice between your salary and hoodwinking kids, which would you choose?&#8221; De Gennaro asked.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Read out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/palm-beach\/fl-fcat-placebo-effect-20120227,0,7231999.story\">full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the school&#8217;s idea? Any tricks used in your school to try and boost FCAT performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Florida school is feeding students &#8220;FCAT power bars&#8221; and hoping the apple-flavored cereal bar gives students more confidence facing the annual Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, according to the Sun-Sentinel. The district says they don&#8217;t want kids at Palm Beach County&#8217;s Hagen Road Elementary School to take the test on an empty stomach. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":5260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1019,1021,1119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5262,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions\/5262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}