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Herein lays the real reason for Starr now advocating a "3-year moratorium on standardized testing" for MCPS students as the fox anticipates scores will also drop in our County shortly:

From EDUCATION WEEK
December 18, 2012

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/11/02/11standards.h32.html

[b]Scores Drop on Ky.'s Common Core-Aligned Tests [/b]By Andrew Ujifusa

[b]Results from new state tests in Kentucky—the first in the nation explicitly tied to the Common Core State Standards—show that the share of students scoring “proficient” or better in reading and math dropped by roughly a third or more in both elementary and middle school the first year the tests were given.[/b]

Kentucky in 2010 was the first state to adopt the common core in English/language arts and mathematics, and the assessment results released last week for the 2011-12 school year are being closely watched by school officials and policymakers nationwide for what they may reveal about how the common standards may affect student achievement in coming years. So far, 46 states have adopted the English/language arts common standards; 45 states have done so in math.

Two federally funded consortia are working on assessments based on the common standards, and those tests are not slated to be fully ready for schools until 2014-15. But Kentucky’s tests are generally understood to be linked...

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It makes sense that scores would drop. The old tests (MSA at least) are ridiculously easy. The new tests are harder, and have higher expectations for showing proficiency. It actually goes along with the general idea of 2.0 - the bar for proficiency is higher. Sure, proficiency may be a low bar for high achieving students, but low achieving to average students are actually being given higher expectations. Higher achieving students won't be impacted regardless of the standardized test. Those 50 percent or more in MCPS who have been scoring advanced or higher on the MSA were scoring that high, in part, because the test is too damned easy. PARCC (the new test) will be harder.[/quote]

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