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Parents should brace themselves. [b]In every state that has taken the PARCC tests, 70 percent of students have failed.[/b]  The tests are very long, very complicated, and well beyond what kids are being taught in school.

Google the fiascos in New York and Kentucky where students are failing the tests in droves -- repeatedly. [/quote]

No state has used the PARCC tests. The tests that students took in New York and Kentucky are not the PARCC tests.[/quote]

They are indeed the 1.0 version of the PARCC tests. [/quote]

Yes, we've had this discussion before.

The New York tests, the Kentucky tests, and the PARCC tests are all suposed to be aligned to the Common Core. Some of the same people were involved in their development. And they may (or may not) be similar.

But the New York tests and the Kentucky tests are not the PARCC tests.

You might as well say that a Ford car is a GM car is a Chrysler car, because they're all cars designed for the same purpose, by companies with headquarters in Detroit.[/quote]

Interesting analogy. To students and their parents, the results are going to be the same, though. The tests will feel impossibly hard, most children will fail them.  Just like a Ford or a Chrysler is transportation, the Common Core tests are the same animal because they are being devised by the same people. [/quote]

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