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"Dear NCSE, I have a student whose father wants me to let his son opt out of instruction in evolution this semester.
In dealing with individual parents who are requesting or demanding permission for their children to be opted out of instruction in evolution, not necessarily seeking the institution of a formal OOPSIE, different strategies are appropriate.
What can I do?" "Dear NCSE, a member of our school board claims that something called the 'Hatch Amendment' requires our teachers to let students opt out of instruction in evolution.
Can this possibly be true?" "Dear NCSE, We don't have a controversial issues policy in my district, so do I have to let a student who says that learning evolution is against her religion opt out of learning about evolution?" "Dear NCSE, I have a student whose father wants me to let his son opt out of instruction in evolution this semester.
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Given the increase in out-of-school instruction in some countries, we would recommend that a question relating to out-of-school instruction be re-introduced in future TIMSS studies.
At the same time, districts that send special education students away to receive services would receive partial reimbursement from the state only after they spent $55,000 for out-of-district instruction.
In particular, additional efforts should be undertaken in international comparative studies to estimate the effects of out-of-school instruction on students' test scores, and to disentangle those effects from the effects of countries' formal education systems.
Finally, one possible explanation for the observed differences in mathematics achievement between countries may be the pervasiveness of supplementary, out-of-school instruction for East Asian students (Bray, 2003; Bray and Kwo, 2013).
In conducting this study, the authors acknowledge that one of the most significant challenges for comparing the relationships between student test scores in U.S. to the test scores of students in East Asian countries is the pervasiveness of out-of-school instruction in those countries, particularly in mathematics (Bray, 2003; Bray and Kwo, 2013).
This research highlights the challenges for examining the teacher-level correlates of student test scores using data from cross-sectional, international studies that do not include measures of students' prior achievement, classroom observations, or estimates of students' out-of-school instruction.
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