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[quote=Anonymous]What is new are the stakes and what the assessments focus on. The people on the ground who know the kids far better than the school board members were able to take many factors into account when measuring progress in the past. Now they will be forced to focus on just a few things. Also, teachers focus on what they're being measured against, and what their salaries and jobs depend on. What they're going to be judged on from now on are primarily math and literacy scores. But what matters much more for those kids to be learning are social skills and creativity. With these tests, you get a lot of unnecessary anxiety (not good for teaching OR learning), labeling of kids, and a misdirection of resources.[/quote]
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