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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/11/17/13sbac.h34.html

Cutoff Scores Set for Common-Core Tests
By Catherine Gewertz

In a move likely to cause political and academic stress in many states, a consortium that is designing assessments for the Common Core State Standards released data Monday[b] projecting that more than half of students will fall short of the marks[/b] that connote grade-level skills on its tests of English/language arts and mathematics.[/quote]

Calm down.   That happens every time there is a change in testing and is expected to happen if there is a change in standards.

It happened in VA when they moved to the SOLs.   Over 90% of the students failed the first few years.

Especially if standards are raised, it will take a few years for kids to be able to meet all the standards.

In addition, many students will be losing accommodations  on the PARCC test that allowed them to look like they were meeting the standards.   For example, in MD we have been told that we may no longer read state tests out loud to students who cannot read well UNLESS they have been identified as having a specific learning disability in learning to decode words AND they have an IEP documenting that they are receiving direct instruction in decoding skills.   That means all those kids who weren't taught to decode and managed to pass the reading tests because people read out loud to them for years and years will NOT be passing these tests.

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