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That's lovely, but doesn't actually address the issue at hand.  I can tell you from first hand information that under the old system, we, as parents got much more meaningful information about how our children were doing.[/quote]

That is not my experience. I find the information I'm getting about my child under 2.0 at least as meaningful as the information I got under the old system. And I'm comparing the same teachers at the same school.[/quote]

I just got my first 2.0 interim report card.  I really have no idea how my child is really doing.  Mostly P with a couple of I.  The school basically said they're not giving ES, nobody is getting N.  Not enough granularity.  I have no idea if my child really understands, understands just enough to be proficient, is getting an I, but that's to be expected half way through etc. I don't have any real beef with 2.0, but the report card is terrible.  [/quote]

If you get back returned papers, you'll see trends in weaknesses.  Notice where the Is are, for example, in reading. Most Is in reading, social studies and science stem from not yet reaching an analytical stage.  So while the student may be able to pull details from a text, does s/he reach beyond the text to draw conclusions?  Math also has that component, but the Is my daughter received were in rounding numbers. There was a trend.  So when her work comes home - with or w/o her data binder - we review it together.  I'd rather see Is than straight Ps if I know she's missing the mark in an area.

Kids today do no have number sense; they don't know the reason behind 3x5.  With 2.0, they are asked to justify a response by viewing it through multiple lenses.

In reading, they are asked to make inferences starting at a young age.  Kids do it all the time w/o recognizing it, but b/c we fail as educators in the area of metacognition.  So kids rarely label their thinking.

If you look at IB at the high school level, you'll find similarities, as 2.0 is IB - but at the elementary level.  Look at the PYP elementary schools or the MYP middle schools.  same philosophy[/quote]

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