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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the PARCC is not perfect but has some value. Otherwise you cannot really compare school to school or schools in different states. You need to have some common parameters to know what is going on in different schools. Also, reading and math skills are critical to future success. This might not be a big deal to your upper middle class kid but it is critical to the vast majority of kids in DCPS. Maybe you can keep your kid home. It certainly won't affect your child but it might be nice for all DCPS kids if everyone just took the test and we ended up with a high participation rate and scores that will help D.C. figure out how to do better.[/quote]

The evidence simply does not indicate that high PARCC participation rates and scores will in fact help DC and the states figure out how "to do better" in spending finite ed resources.  It's worth considering that the world's highest performing public school systems, including those in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands and Singapore, outperform the US by a wide margin in math without giving standardized tests to pre-teens, or spending as much per capita on instruction.  The enthusiasm of politicians for data points should not drive our ed agenda.  [/quote]

We don't live in Norway, the Netherlands or Singapore, which has far less income inequality and overall cultural inequity than we do. If we fixed those issues we wouldn't have the education issues we have.

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