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Sticks and carrots. As opposed to the tests previously being of no consequence. Basically your argument fails because you're making the case that the tests were previously completely worthless and a waste, as opposed to actually trying to achieve some sort of outcome now. [/quote]

Quite the contrary.  The tests of the past were used by teachers for diagnosis of weaknesses and strengths.  They served a true purpose.  Didn't lead to turning out robots.
 
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PARCC Testing doesn't create robots.  If schools are choosing to teach to the test or are doing rote memorization and drill-and-kill, that's by their own choice, and they aren't doing a good job of educating.  Look, PARCC isn't testing kids on obscure or random stuff that would be taking away from normal curriculum and learning.  It's not testing kids on their knowledge of Old Church Slavonic or Underwater Basketweaving, it's algebra, grammar, reading comprehension - stuff that kids should be learning anyways.[/quote]

It's testing kids on how well they read - not on the content.

That's what you and many others don't get.

It's a reading test.

If a 10th grader is reading at a 5th grade level, s/he will bomb the ELA PARCC b/c the reading levels are very advanced.  We are assuming that all students will master more and more complex texts each year, which isn't the case.

So in theory, while the tests are written to assess certain skills, even IF a student understands the basic concept of theme, s/he may not be able to grasp the theme if a text is w/in a higher lexile band.

Get it?

And that's not our fault as educators.  I can't take a 9th grader and move him from a 3rd to 10th grade reading level by June.[/quote]

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