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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]As for this "OMG the tests!" -- I was in elementary school in the late-1970s-1980s and we had tests like this every year, then, too. Stanford Achievement Tests, anyone? [/quote]

No. NOt the same.  Those tests were validated and tested.  Teachers evaluations did not depend on them-nor did the school depend on its life based on those tests.

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These tests have been validated and tested too. In fact, my child's school participated in the testing of the PARCC tests last year.

The school-test results relationship is the result of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and has nothing to do with the Common Core standards. The idea of tying teacher performance evaluations to test results also has nothing to do with the Common Core standards.[/quote]

Describe how they are valid, in detail.

You realize your child likely failed the test, right? [/quote]

Nobody failed any test last year. Last year the PARCC tests and Smarter Balanced tests got tested. This is the first year that anybody will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced tests as tests.

Also, "valid" and "validated" mean different things.[/quote]

States are dropping the PARCC left and right. There are only a few states left -- it's THAT BAD,[/quote]

What's your point?

12 states plus DC will use PARCC. 18 states will use Smarter Balanced. 20 states will use their own tests.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/what-happens-when-the-common-core-becomes-less--common/2015/01/25/33b8eb58-a2bf-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html[/quote]

My point is that PARCC IS SO LOUSY that half the states already dropped out.

I[b]n 2010, for example, there were 26 states aligned with the testing consortium known as PARCC, but that has whittled down by more than half: Now only 12 states plus the District plan to give the PARCC exam to students, [/b]according to the Council of State School Officers, an organization of state education chiefs. Mississippi became the latest state to back out of the PARCC testing consortium this month amid calls from Gov. Phil Bryant (R) to drop the Common Core.[/quote]

Mississippi dropped out without having ever administered the PARCC test, which raises the question of how they could know that the PARCC IS SO LOUSY. Also, they now plan to develop their own tests. I wonder how good those tests will be? Mississippi, of course, is well-known as leading state in education...[/quote]

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