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    June 8, 2014
    Local teacher, library offer advice for kids to avoid ‘summer slide’
    Kristen Egge can tell in September whether her students were engaged in academic activities during their summer break. “Kids need to read and write and do a little bit of math every day,” said Egge, a fifth-grade teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School in Willmar. The Willmar...
    news / educationJune 8, 2014 - 11:18pm
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    August 26, 2013
    State test scores indicate improvement in math
    WILLMAR — Minnesota’s students scored better than last year in state standardized tests in math but not quite as well in science. The kids took reading tests, too, but those scores can’t be compared, because the test was new this year. The days of frequent changes in standards...
    news / educationAugust 26, 2013 - 11:36pm
    April 14, 2012
    Second annual youth science retreat is today in Willmar, Minn.
    WILLMAR -- The second annual i3@MTC Youth Science Retreat takes place today the MinnWest Technology Campus in Willmar. The free, day-long event takes place from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and features demonstrations, hands-on labs, real-life applications of science and expose students...
    newsApril 14, 2012 - 7:48am
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    February 26, 2011
    Math resources
    Students and parents who want to practice on MCA III sample problems can go to the website www.perspectiveforfamilies.com. Choose Minnesota on the home page, and then choose the student's grade on the Minnesota home page. Students should have an ID number they can use to sign in,...
    extra / news / local / educationFebruary 26, 2011 - 12:34am
    Test-writing process
    The State Department of Education uses great care to develop the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments. Danith Clausen, Willmar's director of curriculum and instruction, said the tests are written by groups of teachers recruited by the SDE from across the state. They start with the...
    extra / news / local / educationFebruary 26, 2011 - 12:33am
    Are you smarter than an eighth-grader?
    Take a look at the state's sample math test for eighth-graders, chock full of algebra problems, and, depending on your memory and your age, you...
    extra / news / local / educationFebruary 26, 2011 - 12:28am
    June 15, 2009
    Minnesota Opinion: On math standards
    An excerpt from recent editorials in Minnesota newspapers: From the Associated Press On second thought, the Minnesota Legislature decided that the state's GRAD math test wasn't ready for prime time. The test, consisting of 40 questions embedded within the 85-question MCA-II math...
    opinion / editorialsJune 15, 2009 - 12:00am
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    December 6, 2008
    Public Forum: The real-life math test
    I have a few comments regarding the article in your Dec. 1 edition, "Students and teachers nervous about math test." Sorry to tell you, kids, but life is full of math tests. Get over it.
    opinion / lettersDecember 6, 2008 - 12:00am
    October 14, 2008
    NLS students surpassing state expectations in reading, but not in math
    NEW LONDON -- Results from the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments-Series II (MCA-II) tests were presented to the New London-Spicer School Board Monday during its regular meeting. According to the test results, NLS students are meeting or exceeding standards in reading at a higher...
    localOctober 14, 2008 - 12:00am
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