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What do you want to have happen in 2015?

Forget Common Core. 
Stop NCLB testing. 
Let teachers teach according to what the child needs to learn. Start where the kid is.

Hahaha! How are you going to know where the kid is, if you don't TEST them?

Moronic.
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Teacher here.  If you think that one test---any one test---is going to tell you where to start with a child, you are deluding yourself.  The only real way to know "where a kid is"---if you can completely "know"--- is to give the child tasks and observe how the child attacks those tasks and what the outcomes are.  This takes time and a skilled/experienced teacher.  The "knowing" is about so much more than a test result.  Every child approaches a work situation differently and that is key to understanding how to teach the child.  No test can give you that kind of information---especially not a multiple choice test.  If you want to have an appropriate education for each child, start with teachers who spend time getting to know how each child learns.  This is what teachers really want to do and it produces a rewarding learning environment for both the teacher and the student.  [/quote]

You're talking subjective knowledge of the student vs. objective as though they are mutually exclusive, when they aren't, and in fact they are more powerful when done in a complementary fashion.  Of course, no one test will tell you everything, but it can certainly tell you the basic things, like is a kid able to add two single-digit numbers correctly, is a kid able to pick a verb out of a simple sentence.  It's a baseline assessment that is very quick and easy to do, without having to take a couple of weeks to get to know each student on a more subjective level.  Nobody ever said that one should be at the expense of the other.[/quote]

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