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[quote=Anonymous][quote]PP with all the vaguely ominous one-liners has a point here (even though I think he or she is nutty/paranoid, mostly).

EVERYTHING is going to be determined by the PARCC and SMART tests. The standards can be great (and, I think they are fine and support them) but what success will boil down to is how well these tests are written and how meaningful they are.

And my fear is that Pearson will screw them up. It doesn't have a great track record in test development, apparently.

Something this important should also have more oversight. I would like to see a board of practicing classroom teachers -- not "education experts" or "test developers" -- but actual, bonafide, current, full time working teachers (with at least 5 years' experience at their grade level) sit on a final "supervisory board" to evaluate whether the test questions being given on these PARCC tests are actually reasonable questions to be asking a child at each grade level. Just the interjection of some common sense by people who are currently working in the field.  
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First, there is more than one poster on this thread complaining about CC.  Next, we do not need a national review board.  We need local oversight.[/quote]

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