PARCC results: how will they be communicated to families?

[Anonymous]

It will be bad and DC is stupid for using the PARCC. As a previous poster said, DC parents have not kicked up a sit storm about it (I have!), but worse than that is that DC parents continue to cite to PARCC scores as evidence of a quality or no-quality school. So, I guess you all are fine with the PARCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be bad and DC is stupid for using the PARCC. As a previous poster said, DC parents have not kicked up a sit storm about it (I have!), but worse than that is that DC parents continue to cite to PARCC scores as evidence of a quality or no-quality school. So, I guess you all are fine with the PARCC.

PARCC or DC CAS or something else, you will still write stupid comments. Suck it up. My kids took it. We're moving on. Maybe you should too?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a multi page report with your kid’s scores, how they performed in different sections, how they compare to their peers, etc. it’s not just “Susie got a 4”

The peer comparison is very limited. Nobody takes PARCC anymore so you are just comparing to other kids in DC of which many are low performing.

It doesn’t give you data on national comparison like other more widely used standardized tests.

Very true. I think DC is the only place using PARCC. At its height there were more than 10 states using PARCC including Maryland. So, why do you think it is like that? I would love to know how my kids compare to other kids in other states.

Used to be 24! According to Wikipedia,

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State Current Participation Status

Alabama dropped February, 2013[17]
Arizona dropped May, 2014[18]
Arkansas dropped July, 2015[19]
Florida dropped September 2013[20]
District of Columbia current user
DoDEA current user[21]
Georgia dropped July, 2013[22]
Illinois dropped March 2019[23]
Indiana dropped June 2014[24]
Kentucky dropped January, 2014[25]
Louisiana uses hybrid PARCC/state test[26][27]
Maryland dropped September, 2018[28]
Massachusetts uses hybrid PARCC/state test[29]
Mississippi dropped January, 2015[30]
New Jersey dropped February, 2019[31]
New Mexico dropped January, 2019[32]
North Dakota dropped July, 2013[33]
Ohio dropped June 2015[34]
Oklahoma dropped July 2013[35]
Pennsylvania dropped March 2014
Rhode Island dropped April 2017[36]
Tennessee dropped June, 2014[37]
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Now DC + DoDEA, and partially MA and LA.

I wonder what it costs DC now that it is shouldering the burden?

Wow! Do all schools do MAP testing or is there some other standard that could provide a general sense of how the kids are doing and how they compare to their peers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. My guess would be late Friday afternoon before the holiday weekend. Assuming it’s bad news and she wants it to go away.

[phone] She is totally going to take out the trash before a log weekend.

[Anonymous]

At the BASIS townhall last night we were told that 5th graders' scores from 4th grade - year prior would be sent to BASIS. No clue if that's sprcific to BASIS or not but thought I'd share the data point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm. My guess would be late Friday afternoon before the holiday weekend. Assuming it’s bad news and she wants it to go away.

Oh, it’s definitely bad news alright. Really bad.

The national results are AWFUL. There is reason to think based on closure length and demographics that DC's will be even worse: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/national-test-scores-math-reading-pandemic.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20220901&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=39479718&segment_id=102921&user_id=49839a1e69b7a404a951409e602d9ffc.

Maybe Bowser actually wanted the national ones dropped first so parents would realize that a lot of this isn't DC specific.

[Anonymous]

Top story on the Washington Post home page right now is how bad the scores are nationally...(no firewall)

https://wapo.st/3ADaw7D

[Anonymous]

This part in the Post article is interesting. Will DC's reading scores show they stayed flat?

"Amid all of the declines, flat scores drew attention: No measurable decline in reading was found in the West, in cities or in rural areas. “The fact that reading achievement from students in cities held steady — when you consider the extreme crises cities are dealing with during the pandemic — is especially significant,” Carr said."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This part in the Post article is interesting. Will DC's reading scores show they stayed flat?

"Amid all of the declines, flat scores drew attention: No measurable decline in reading was found in the West, in cities or in rural areas. “The fact that reading achievement from students in cities held steady — when you consider the extreme crises cities are dealing with during the pandemic — is especially significant,” Carr said."

It only applies to cities and rural areas IN THE WEST (I realize their phrasing is ambiguous), which only had a 5% drop overall. DC is in the Northeast, which had an 8% drop... so I wouldn't count on it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This part in the Post article is interesting. Will DC's reading scores show they stayed flat?

"Amid all of the declines, flat scores drew attention: No measurable decline in reading was found in the West, in cities or in rural areas. “The fact that reading achievement from students in cities held steady — when you consider the extreme crises cities are dealing with during the pandemic — is especially significant,” Carr said."

It only applies to cities and rural areas IN THE WEST (I realize their phrasing is ambiguous), which only had a 5% drop overall. DC is in the Northeast, which had an 8% drop... so I wouldn't count on it.

friggin commas

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This part in the Post article is interesting. Will DC's reading scores show they stayed flat?

"Amid all of the declines, flat scores drew attention: No measurable decline in reading was found in the West, in cities or in rural areas. “The fact that reading achievement from students in cities held steady — when you consider the extreme crises cities are dealing with during the pandemic — is especially significant,” Carr said."

It only applies to cities and rural areas IN THE WEST (I realize their phrasing is ambiguous), which only had a 5% drop overall. DC is in the Northeast, which had an 8% drop... so I wouldn't count on it.

friggin commas

This is why we need the oxford comma, people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This part in the Post article is interesting. Will DC's reading scores show they stayed flat?

"Amid all of the declines, flat scores drew attention: No measurable decline in reading was found in the West, in cities or in rural areas. “The fact that reading achievement from students in cities held steady — when you consider the extreme crises cities are dealing with during the pandemic — is especially significant,” Carr said."

It only applies to cities and rural areas IN THE WEST (I realize their phrasing is ambiguous), which only had a 5% drop overall. DC is in the Northeast, which had an 8% drop... so I wouldn't count on it.

friggin commas

This is why we need the oxford comma, people.

Seriously.

[Anonymous]

There were a handful of people saying “learning loss is not a thing.” Maybe I’m not hip on what that means, but people were definitely saying it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This part in the Post article is interesting. Will DC's reading scores show they stayed flat?

"Amid all of the declines, flat scores drew attention: No measurable decline in reading was found in the West, in cities or in rural areas. “The fact that reading achievement from students in cities held steady — when you consider the extreme crises cities are dealing with during the pandemic — is especially significant,” Carr said."

It only applies to cities and rural areas IN THE WEST (I realize their phrasing is ambiguous), which only had a 5% drop overall. DC is in the Northeast, which had an 8% drop... so I wouldn't count on it.

friggin commas

This is why we need the oxford comma, people.

Seriously.

I’m a big Oxford comma fan. But I looked at the actual report and it definitely didn’t seem like the city thing was limited to cities in the west…

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2022/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This part in the Post article is interesting. Will DC's reading scores show they stayed flat?

"Amid all of the declines, flat scores drew attention: No measurable decline in reading was found in the West, in cities or in rural areas. “The fact that reading achievement from students in cities held steady — when you consider the extreme crises cities are dealing with during the pandemic — is especially significant,” Carr said."

It only applies to cities and rural areas IN THE WEST (I realize their phrasing is ambiguous), which only had a 5% drop overall. DC is in the Northeast, which had an 8% drop... so I wouldn't count on it.

friggin commas

This is why we need the oxford comma, people.

Seriously.

I’m a big Oxford comma fan. But I looked at the actual report and it definitely didn’t seem like the city thing was limited to cities in the west…

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2022/

But rural was… so the grammar is very wrong!