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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If enough families would opt out of testing perhaps th ey would stop using as a primary tool for judgment of teachers and school quality.[/quote]

That is a terrible way to address the issue.[/quote]

Disagree! it is the only tool we have. If over 50% of families opt their kids out the scores would mean a hell of a lot less. And if 75% of families opt their kids out the scores would mean nothing. Then maybe we could get back to teaching and engaging kids and not bowing to corporate interests. And teachers could be evaluated fairly. Start writing your opt out letters folks tune of samples and helpful advice online. Let’s render that’s data USELESS[/quote]

In this day and age all schools must provide some form of assessment. In most of Europe all students are assessed and these are high-stakes as they determine access to university! Are the assessments perfect, no but students take them seriously. The problem in the USA is that there is no national form of exams, something the Common Core is attempting to do, the PARCC was supposed to measure success learning the CORE standards. The college and career readiness I believe has misguided people. Is it a perfect test NO, but it is really not that hard. Problems with administration - yes, because not all schools have the technology or have trained students how to use it, but lowering the standards or not using some measure is problematic. We should be upset that children are scoring so poorly, more that we should be obsessing about the assessment itself. The PARCC should give teacher's more data points like the SOL so you understand more which skills schools are not teaching well, but you need to use some objective measures. [/quote]

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