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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]China laughs at our educational regression.   At least this new SOL increase is a small step in the right direction. [/quote]

What an absolutely idiotic statement.  Have you actually seen Pearson tests?  No, you have not, because most aren't released to the public.  You haven't seen how poorly composed the reading selections are, how obtusely worded are the questions, and how most questions actually contain several steps of completion that must ALL be correct in order to get any credit (which they call increased "rigor".)

The tests are designed to make schools looks like they are failing.  And arbitrarily raising the pass score from 400 to 453 or 479 is utterly ARBITRARILY going to make a passing student look like a failing student, and a good school look like a bad school.

You have to ask:  Who does this benefit?  Do you really believe that 3rd grade reading proficiency should arbitrarily be cut off at a much higher level than proficiency used to be measured at?

No.  This is entirely political, entirely pushed by the testing companies who continues to profit obscenely by siphoning public education money away from schools, and pushed by politicians whose goals are to shot down public schooling as we know it.

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You have a point.  However, there's also legislation that would enforce the current law that test banks be made public in an appropriate time frame.
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