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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Oh, like the anti-CC retired ex-teacher poster here who eons ago prior to NCLB taught for a few years yet thinks she knows the reality of every day.

Or like the anti-CC posters who are obviously not from DC/VA/MD and in fact are probably living 1000+ miles away and who obviously have no clue about our schools, our SOLs, testing, school funding or anything else about how things are done here, but who are nonetheless presuming to pontificate about all of those things...

Or like the posters who presume to know more about my own kid's experience with Common Core and testing in school than my own kid does. Major eyeroll there.

They certainly aren't living in reality...[/quote]

I've been on here a lot.  You just called me "full of crap" for starters (and many things before that).  I am not retired.  I am teaching full time in the DMV in a public school.  I started in 1989 so I was teaching before NCLB (for 12 years).  I am older, yes, but cannot retire yet.  I know the reality of every day because I teach FULL TIME every day in the DMV.  Public school.  I have taught at all levels, but currently am at high school.  I teach English.  I am not 1000 miles away.  I have a big clue.  I know about SOLs.  I know about school funding.  I know how different schools can be because I have been in more than a few.

I don't know more than your kid about his own experience and I never said I did.  I just said that it was one experience and it cannot necessarily be extrapolated to everyone else's experience.

I live in reality every day.  I believe that you are a psychometric technical person who makes these tests and who does not see the practical side of their application and use.  It's fine to have standardized tests.  It is how they are being used that is the problem.  The high stakes nature is a mistake.  You are saying that these tests are no longer high stakes and hopefully that is true.  However, they are mandated and there has been a pattern of misuse under NCLB.  NCLB included punitive measures attached to the testing.  That may be over, but the pattern was so established (14 years) that the mindset doesn't change overnight.  Also, people know that Duncan wants to keep these mandated standardized tests in place and people are skeptical about his motives for that.  He hasn't really "come clean" about those.  I honestly think the testing has done more to segregate students further---into charter schools, etc.  The ranking mania is unbelievable.  That is probably the real reason behind wanting to keep the tests.  They say it's to help the lower scoring students, but I don't see that really happening.  In fact, those students are being hurt by the testing.  The pressure to increase scores makes the lower scoring schools become test practice and "drill and kill" factories.  No real learning when that is going on.  The upper scoring kids are also being hurt.  The tests do reward mediocrity.  [/quote]

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