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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.  [b]We are assuming that all students will master more and more complex texts each year[/b], 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]

No, we are not. We are saying that grade-level texts become more and more complex with each increasing grade. Thus, for a student to stay on grade level, the student has to be able to read more and more complex texts with each increasing grade. Otherwise the student is reading below grade level.

A ninth-grader who is reading at the third-grade level is by definition not reading on grade level. And even if the ninth-grader is reading at the seventh-grade level by the end of the year, which would be an outstanding advance, the ninth-grader would still not be reading on grade level.
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