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[quote=Anonymous]It is very difficult to measure the strength of each school because students aren't a blank slate. They enter with skills and knowledge, some more than others. My son started kindergarten reading on a third grade level. His teacher got the credit for him making the EOY benchmark even though he had nothing to do with it. Students in my school enter without knowing much of anything expected of them at the BOY. Their parents are surprised when they get notice that they didn't meet the BOY benchmark. They had no idea they were behind the minute they walked in the door. They think the school should teach the kids everything. Schools really need to have EOY course exams so that it can be apparent exactly what students learned or didn't learn in that course that school year. My DS goes to a Catholic school and has had midterms and finals since 3rd grade. The content of the course is measured twice a year during exams. PARCC gives students a random set of passages that don't reflect any content that has been taught. So if a student has to read a passage about crustaceans but they have no idea what they are, they are screwed. Chances are, students who come to school with a lot of background knowledge (this tends to be UMC students) will do better on the PARCC test. It doesn't have much to do with the content they were taught though. They need to bring in midterms and finals and make sure the content of the course is what is being measured on these tests.[/quote]

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