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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]1st and 2d graders don't take standardized tests. [/quote]

This is not true. They take the MAP tests a few times a year. The school doesn't send home the results but you can ask for them Good schools will readily hand them to you, others will try to avoid it because its work to respond to anything.  [/quote]

And do you or or that poster have evidence that indicates MAP scores have declined under 2.0?  I don't think so.

Likewise, there was always group work pre-2.0, because it allowed the teacher to focus on small groups.[/quote]

I am not the PP to whom you are responding, and I can only respond based on our child's personal MAP scores.  (Countywide MAP scores are not available as far as I know, although someone could try to get the data thru some kind of FOIA request.)

My child was accelerated one year above grade level prior to the introduction of C2.0.  Once C2.0 was introduced ALL students who had been accelerated were pulled off acceleration and put back in on grade level classes.  The on grade level C2.0 math was touted by the principal as "deeper" than the prior non-C2.0 math.  It was not.  I carefully monitored all homework and assessments that came home.  The C2.0 class did not offer anything different than the previous year's non-C2.0 math.

At the end of the year, my child's MAP scores, in terms of percentiles, declined.

I agree with the poster who said that the schools try not to give the MAP data.  Our school would never give it, until I made a specific written request.  Sometimes I even had to remind teachers that it was my right to see the MAP data and various break-outs that the teachers can see but never hand out to parents.  [/quote]

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