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[quote=Anonymous]Most of the people at that site PP listed from New York gave the batshot crazy NYS test.

Here's a comment from a NYS reading teacher who gave her kids the PARCC test:

[quote]"It makes me angry to read a test question that asks young children to analyze a text structure or the author’s intentions. Save that for high school; maybe middle school. What is this measuring? I would MUCH rather have my students read a story or article and respond to sensible, cognitively- appropriate questions that demonstrate their ability to comprehend what they have read at both the literal and critical levels of thinking. Asking them to deconstruct a text is sheer MADNESS, even stupidity. Prepping kids for these tests is a waste of time and a real turn-off for both students and teachers. And the testing times are too short for most kids to do as well as they could if given more time. On the other hand, they reach their saturation point usually before they’ve finished, anyway. Further, teachers are never given any useful data to help them understand the child’s strengths and needs. So, great job, NYSED!!"[/quote]

So her frustration is that a 3rd grader was asked to analyze author's intent in writing a story or paragraph.   THE HORROR![/quote]

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