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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're teaching to the test. I worked at 9/10 Title I school for a long time, and everything was MSA, all the time.  Kids were in after school clubs for test prep, morning clubs for test prep, lunch bunches for test prep, etc.  students got every possible accommodation they were eligible for, including many taking the test one on one with an accommodator sitting next to them (NOT coaching/giving answers, but just continuously looking over their should to make sure they were actually trying).  Anyway, PARCC rolled in, the test changed, along with rules for accommodations, and the school's rating dropped to a 6.[/quote]

OP - I don't understand... they do take the PARCC at this school....[/quote]

The PP's post was simply an anecdote illustrating the following fact: Greatschools ratings are based almost entirely off of test scores.

The point about the PARCC was tangential. Demonstrating only that schools can manipulate their greatschools ratings by manipulating their test performance, and that in PP's school's case they had an easier time scoring (artificially) highly on previous tests than on the PARCC. [/quote]

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