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[quote=Anonymous]From the Washington Post:

..."Wilson High School in Northwest Washington experienced the worst setback — a drop of nearly 58 percent in the number of students who met or exceeded expectations on the English portion of the test. In 2015, 50 percent of Wilson students earned fours and fives in that area; this year, just 21 percent of students did.

But the school saw a bump in the number of students meeting or exceeding expectations in math, with 18 percent of students at that level in 2016, compared with 8 percent in 2015.

School Without Walls High School —a high-performing DCPS school where admission is by application — saw a 12.4 percent drop in students earning fours and fives on the English portion of the test.

It is unclear what caused the dramatic drop in these two schools. Officials suggested Tuesday that normally high-scoring students may have intentionally flubbed the test.

Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said that more than 100 Wilson parents unsuccessfully sought permission for their children to “opt out” of PARCC, which came the week before Advanced Placement exams and in the middle of AP review sessions.

Wilson principal Kimberly Martin said students seemed to be more focused on AP tests than PARCC. “We saw students that were finishing the exam in five or seven minutes,” Martin said of PARCC, which was given in three parts, each designed to be no less than 90 minutes long."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-students-post-modest-gains-in-paarc-test-scores-wilson-high-school-sees-dramatic-drop/2016/08/30/eee76024-6e35-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html[/quote]

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