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Arne Duncan insists that all kids should sit in regular classrooms and learn Common Core Standards with no variance. He has also moved to strip states of their ability to have special needs children take alternative testing. So even if they read at a second grade level, they must sit for a 7th grade test that is now written at a 10th grade level.

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What are these 7th grade tests written at a 10th grade level?

I guess that I don't know what the solution is for the alternative testing -- as opposed to the regular testing with accommodation. If you're in seventh grade but reading at a second-grade level, should you take the second-grade test? Or the seventh-grade test? Or no test? Should the answer depend on why you're reading at a second-grade level? I am definitely no fan of NCLB, but I think the results of the standardized NCLB testing demonstrate that there are a lot of children in the US who are not learning what they should learn, and it's a good thing that we know this.[/quote]

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