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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PARRC is most ridiculous.  [/quote]

Why?[/quote]

You're really asking?  Where shall I start?  Pearson makes a killing on grading the PARCC, though graders make little more than minimum wage. Pearson is notorious for writing ungrammatical questions whose answers they don't score once they're called out on typos.  They used to owned by the Financial Times (where I worked), but were basically dumped for poor management.  The tests correspond to what's taught in classrooms poorly. Parents don't get results for 8 or 9 months, by which time kids are in the next grade being taught by a different teacher. Scores correlate very closely to parents' income, meaning that upper middle-class kids generally score 4s and 5s (you need days of testing to figure this out as a high SES family?).  Test prep is all too common, eating up time that used to be spent on class field trips and other enrichment.  High stakes testing hurts teacher morale. Kids who score high aren't rewarded; kids who score low aren't held back a grade. Etc. etc. etc.

A waste of time is putting it mildly.  [/quote]

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