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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I taught in VA pubic schools the first year that the SOLs were introduced and teachers said the same exact thing. It WAS exhausting and the change was difficult for everyone. Now, years later,[b] VA is very happy with their SOLs and are sticking with them instead of switching to Common Core. [/b][/quote]

I wouldn't say that teachers are happy with SOL standards.  The CC are worse, but that doesn't mean it is a good thing.[/quote]

Well, back then the SOLs were adopted in VA you would have thought the world was going to end.   Teachers were crying, principals were threatening to quit, parents complained that their kids were being pressured and threatened to pull kids out of testing on test days.

I think it was in '97 that schools were evaluated and given accreditation based on how many kids passed the SOLs and that first year, only 2% of all schools passed.   AGain you would have thought it was the end of civilization, the agony, the heartache.   Textbooks were rewritten, some of them were crappy, things got better. students learned to write to a prompt instead of just write whatever the hell they wanted in writing workshop.   Social studies was tested now, so kids were taught more history.   Gradually more and more kids were able to pass the SOLs.   The first 3 years were rocky.

Here's what Jay Matthews had to say about the SOLs in 1998

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/va/testscores/scores010999.htm
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More than 97 percent of Virginia's public schools have flunked the first round of the state's new student achievement tests, according to figures released yesterday – a failure rate so high that some local school officials and parents say it threatens the credibility of the state's testing program.[/quote]
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