Joanne Jacobs finds a pretty major gaffe in a New York Times story. The story is about a Florida law that requires third graders to meet certain assessment outcomes or be forced to retake the third grade.
Times writer Michael Winerip claims that,
Florida has set a national precedent, giving the adults who know these third graders best — their teachers and principals — absolutely no say in who will be kept back.
But Jacobs points out that in fact, a child who fails the test can still be passed on to the fourth grade if both his or her teacher, principal, and the superintendent all agree that the child is reading at the 3rd grade level.
In the whole “are weblogs as reliable as traditional media” debate, weblogs aren’t looking half bad these days.