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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What is simplistic about it? How does it not work that way? How does it work?  
 
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Some kids will be starting BELOW the bottom standard for the grade level.  How do you show growth if he is on third grade level, but taking a sixth grade test?[/quote]

School districts are ALREADY doing this. Children are ALREADY taking standardized tests for their grade. Teachers are ALREADY being assessed based in part on changes in children's scores on those tests.[/quote]

Uh, not everywhere. In my state there are levels of tests, and they are given at grade level to show growth.

But CC and Race to the Top stops this. My child will now be forced to take hours and hours of tests on material he's never learned. The special needs community is all in an uproar over this. Our facebook groups grow by leaps and bounds each day. [/quote]

No, not everywhere. But the fact that it already exists proves that it is possible.

And I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that currently, if your child in third grade is reading at (for example) the first-grade level, then the state standardized test your child takes for reading, for the NCLB requirements, is the first-grade test? There isn't a first-grade test. [/quote]

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