PARCC monitoring student's social media, wants schools to "punish" them

[Anonymous]

Race To The Top is competetive grant funding that states OPT INTO. Race To The Top is not mandatory. It is state choice. And when states do opt in, they develop their OWN evaluation policies and criteria.


It is federal taxpayer money. Do you not get that?

Yes, and thank God Congress defunded Race to the Top! We should not have to compete for our money. It was just a way to push the CC. Thanks Arne.

[Anonymous]

It's well known that New York State had a botched rollout, and that's a state implementation issue. It doesn't necessarily indicate anything about anywhere else.

LOL. Why did I predict you would say that??? As someone else said, it's time to take off those knee pads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is this supposed evidence?

Where is your documentation of the criteria used to assess Common Core standards to determine that they are developmentally inappropriate? Where is your data to support your made-up claims about Common Core only being appropriate for the "top 30%?"

WHERE IS THE DATA? WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? PROVIDE CITATIONS!

It's all here. Massive failure rates predicted for all students, but especially those of color or with any disability.

Straight from Smarter Balanced.

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Disaggregated-FieldTestDataFINAL.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is this supposed evidence?

Where is your documentation of the criteria used to assess Common Core standards to determine that they are developmentally inappropriate? Where is your data to support your made-up claims about Common Core only being appropriate for the "top 30%?"

WHERE IS THE DATA? WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? PROVIDE CITATIONS!

It's all here. Massive failure rates predicted for all students, but especially those of color or with any disability.

Straight from Smarter Balanced.

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Disaggregated-FieldTestDataFINAL.pdf

Achievement gaps are not new, nor are they caused by or the fault of testing, nor are they caused by or the fault of Common Core.

Yet apparently you think that abolishing testing and standards will somehow change that.

[Anonymous]

You really don't understand how ANYTHING works, do you? And then, you ridiculously want to presume to proclaim those things that you clearly do not understand as "delusional?" Laughable.

Here is a suggestion: spend a little time as a classroom teacher before you claim to be so expert.

[Anonymous]

Achievement gaps are not new, nor are they caused by or the fault of testing, nor are they caused by or the fault of Common Core.

Yet apparently you think that abolishing testing and standards will somehow change that.

Thought Common Core "standards" were supposed to fix that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is this supposed evidence?

Where is your documentation of the criteria used to assess Common Core standards to determine that they are developmentally inappropriate? Where is your data to support your made-up claims about Common Core only being appropriate for the "top 30%?"

WHERE IS THE DATA? WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? PROVIDE CITATIONS!

It's all here. Massive failure rates predicted for all students, but especially those of color or with any disability.

Straight from Smarter Balanced.

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Disaggregated-FieldTestDataFINAL.pdf

^ Those types of testing results are pretty much what you would have found on the DC-CAS going back to 2006, yet I'm sure somehow by the delusional, warped and twisted anti-CC logic going on here that was retroactively the fault of Arne Duncan and Common Core too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Achievement gaps are not new, nor are they caused by or the fault of testing, nor are they caused by or the fault of Common Core.

Yet apparently you think that abolishing testing and standards will somehow change that.

Thought Common Core "standards" were supposed to fix that.

What's your fix? Oh, that's right. You don't have one. You just sit in an armchair and bitch.

[Anonymous]

Achievement gaps are not new, nor are they caused by or the fault of testing, nor are they caused by or the fault of Common Core.

This is true. Testing and CC will just make the gap worse-or better, if you close the gap from the top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Achievement gaps are not new, nor are they caused by or the fault of testing, nor are they caused by or the fault of Common Core.

Yet apparently you think that abolishing testing and standards will somehow change that.

Thought Common Core "standards" were supposed to fix that.

That's an asinine comment - the standards have only been in place for a short time. Do you think kids get a new 6th grade textbook and somehow every student from K-12 magically learns what's new and different in that 6th grade textbook by osmosis?

[Anonymous]

What's your fix? Oh, that's right. You don't have one. You just sit in an armchair and bitch.

No. Actually, that is not true. My suggestion for others who want to help is to pitch in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Achievement gaps are not new, nor are they caused by or the fault of testing, nor are they caused by or the fault of Common Core.

This is true. Testing and CC will just make the gap worse-or better, if you close the gap from the top.

Yeah, better to just do away with testing and standards and just PRETEND THE GAP DOESN'T EXIST and that everything is just A-OK and hunky-dory, which is the anti-CCers "solution."

[Anonymous]

Yeah, better to just do away with testing and standards and just PRETEND THE GAP DOESN'T EXIST and that everything is just A-OK and hunky-dory, which is the anti-CCers "solution."

And, what have you done to close the Achievement gap?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What's your fix? Oh, that's right. You don't have one. You just sit in an armchair and bitch.

No. Actually, that is not true. My suggestion for others who want to help is to pitch in.

Yes, pitch in on the effort to abolish standards and testing so that we can go back to PRETENDING and LYING that everything is just fine with our educational system.

"'Murka: We're Number One In The World!" just like some North Korean propaganda...

Lovely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yeah, better to just do away with testing and standards and just PRETEND THE GAP DOESN'T EXIST and that everything is just A-OK and hunky-dory, which is the anti-CCers "solution."

And, what have you done to close the Achievement gap?

More than you, because at least I'm in favor of assessing it, shining a light on it, getting the data out there, and trying to figure out and fix what's wrong with our curriculum to make the appropriate changes - whereas you're just out there saying "don't rock the boat, everything's fine, we'll be just great if we just turn that spotlight off and go back to pretending."