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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can see the spring SOL percentages for FCPS, OP.  If you want to compare, since you think FCPS is hiding some bad news.[/quote]

You mean the ones they lowered the passing scores for so more kids would pass [b]the already bare minimum standard[/b]?

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Over the past 5 years or so, they've been making the SOLs harder, FYI.  In part because parents think they are too easy, and also to better capture what a Standard of Learning should be.  [/quote]

They made them harder [i]until[/i] 2021.

[b]And FWIW, the Nation's Report Card from NAEP says we have the easiest language arts test in the entire US[/b]. Kind of embarassing, no? Our standards are literally the lowest in 4th and 8th. Math's more in the middle. So much for "an educational program of high quality" as promised by the VA constitution.[/quote]

I think that report was describing something else.  It was confusing, exactly what they were comparing, but I don't think your description is accurate.  [/quote]

There's 2 things in the Nation's Report Card. One part is how many kids in a given state mean NAEP's proficiency (not pass their own state standards).

The other part is mapping the state standards to NAEP's proficiency. To be fair NAEP says that being the worst may not mean your state is the worst, but I still think it's a bad look. Per the NAEP state mapping website: "NAEP can be used as the common metric to compare the relative stringency of states’ proficiency standards."
https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/studies/statemapping/[/quote]

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