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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/02/13/what-its-like-to-take-a-common-core-test

What It's Like to Take a Common Core Test
I took a third-grade Common Core test, and it was kind of difficult.

In Ohio, which will be the first state to administer the PARCC exams next week, [b]middle school teacher Jocelyn Weeda said the tests are developmentally inappropriate and is urging parents to opt their children out of taking the test, a local Fox affiliate reported.

"When you look at the reading levels they're way above where students are developmentally at that age," Weeda said after taking a practice test. 
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Why is a woman who finds a test for third graders to be difficult allowed to teach our children?[/quote]

First of all, the quote from the story is a MIDDLE school teacher.

Second the overall story is from a reporter who found the third grade test difficult, EVEN for an adult.

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I am a former journalist. It doesn't surprise me that someone in my former occupation would have difficulty passing a third-grade test.

BTW, there was a show in the air for a number of years entitled "ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER" for good reason.[/quote]

Ooooh, nice one-liner, former journalist. Except for I'm a current journalist, and [b]I know what you are saying to be completely off-base.[/b]

I suppose the middle school teacher's opinion is without merit also. [/quote]

Oh, come on. You know as well as I do that there's a large segment of the journalism population that will just print whatever anyone says uncritically. They will regurgitate press releases, etc.

I mean, journalism is a trade, not a profession. It's not like you need any special education to practice it. The proportion of really great reporters to really bad ones is really small.

The teacher's opinion is just that: An opinion. It's no more valid than mine. And, again, if the teacher found a 3rd grade test to be so difficult, perhaps the teacher shouldn't be teaching at all.[/quote]

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