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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]

What the NEWS STORY from THE WASHINGTON POST says is that an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in Evanston, Illinois, told his school board that he had been at a meeting with state officials where somebody told him that one of the accommodations for English language learners is to read the directions more slowly and loudly.

Meanwhile, here (again) is PARCC's pamphlet about accommodations, including accommodations for English language learners:

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

The accommodations are

-extended time
-general administration directions clarified in student’s native language (by the assessment administrator)
-general administration directions read aloud and repeated as needed in student’s native language (by the assessment administrator)
-scribe or speech-to-text: Responses dictated for mathematics assessment in English
-word-to-word dictionary (English/native language)

So either the assistant superintendent made it up, or he misunderstood, or somebody gave him incorrect misinformation.[/quote]

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