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Here's one of the accommodations the PARCC dumb asses suggested:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/11/25/a-damning-account-of-one-states-common-core-testing-initiative/

Bavis told the board members at the September meeting that districts will comply with the law and administer the PARCC as demanded but that the state did not give districts enough lead time to make testing schedules and set up accommodations for English Language Learners and students with special needs. He said he had attended a meeting about a week earlier at which state officials described [b]approved accommodations for English Language Learners: “I was told that one of the ELL English Language Learner accommodations approved by the state and PARCC is to read the directions slowly, in English, and at a higher volume.[/b] That’s awful as an accommodation. … It’s insulting.”

But yeah, go ahead and turn your kids' futures over to Pearson. 
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That's nonsense.   Please stop spreading misinformation.

There are detailed accommodations available for students learning English as a Second Language on the PARCC.   Many of the accommodations are actually available to all students.  Some are just available to ELL students.  The accommodations have been known for quite some time.

Here's a pamphlet summarizing all the accommodations

http://www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/Teacher%20PARCC%20Brochure%20for%20English%20Learners.pdf

"Read the directions slowly, in English, and at a higher volume" is NOT one of the accommodations listed.

You may read the directions aloud (this is allowed for all students), and you may translate them into the student's native language.

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I'm spreading THE TRUTH. And that little pamphlet pretty much says exactly what the NEWS STORY from THE WASHINGTON POST says.

All those "accommodations" won't mean a goddamned thing to kids who don't speak English sitting for a test most English speakers aren't going to pass. [/quote]

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