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https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-03-11-why-the-smarter-balanced-common-core-math-test-is-fatally-flawed

[b]Why the Smarter Balanced Common Core Math Test is Fatally Flawed[/b]

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Why do we care what this guy says? What are his credentials? (What are his conflicts of interest?) Anybody can write anything and put it up on the Internet.[/quote]

He's a teacher. He's taken the time to go through the testing and give his reasons why they are flawed. Is that not what you have been begging for for thousands of posts?[/quote]

Actually, no. The Smarter Balanced tests are not the Common Core State Standards. Even if the Smarter Balanced tests are flawed, that still doesn't demonstrate that the Common Core State Standards are bad.

Meanwhile, here's another teacher who says that the PARCC tests are good:

[i]"PARCC is the best accountability test I've ever seen," says Phyllis Hedlund, chief academic officer at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. "This is the way we should be asking kids to think." The old tests set such a low bar, she says, that they were really "a waste of time." [/i]

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/26044/anxiety-abounds-as-dc-schools-roll-out-new-harder-tests/

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