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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean, "it's a start"?

PP, how do you know your kids are actually being taught anything at all if you throw away assessment and metrics?

Basically, all I'm hearing with that is "don't hold these kids to any standards, because they are poor".  It's the same type of lame complacency and handwaving excuse making that defends rape culture by saying "boys will be boys".

You're going to have to try a lot harder with your argument against standardized testing.[/quote]

who said anything about "throw[ing] away testing and metrics?"  I'm referring to the kill and drill preparation for DC-CAS that serves mainly to assess teachers, not students.

Teachers are assessing students everyday without standardized testing and could have much more quality time to teach kids if so much preparation for DC-CAS was not required.

The kind of standardized testing I support is the kind that President Obama referred to that his kids got at Sidwell -- the kids weren't even informed in advance that they would be taking a test - no preparation, no bribes, no anxiety, and no threats to school community that their jobs were on the line based on the outcome of kids' tests.[/quote]

I don't get that argument at all.  Why is it "drill and kill"?  The material on the standardized tests should be incidental to and a subset of what kids are supposed to be learning anyways regardless of standardized testing.  For example, at certain grade levels, you need to know your grammar facts, you need to know basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, order of operations and so on.  Why is it that everyone seems to act as though standardized testing is forcing kids into doing something different from the things they would ordinarily be expected to have learned anyways?   The only reason why it would be "drill and kill" is if teaching of all of the prior material was horribly botched the first time around, creating the need for cramming to make up for it.  In which case, ALL you have left is botched teaching.[/quote]

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