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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With standards being constantly tested, the teachers have to skip so many steps.  Did you never cram for a test?  Same thing.[/quote]

Constant testing?  Doesn't NCLB testing only come around once a year?[/quote]

Yes, the testing in MD was the MSA testing which was once a year.  But, they started adding benchmarks and more benchmarks and instead of starting in 3rd grade, they started adding testing beginning in pre-k.  Now, from January until the end of May is one long stretch of testing.  Kids who don't make benchmarks are retested every 2 weeks.  That means, every 2 weeks, students are given busy work so the teachers can sit one on one with each student who didn't make the benchmark (many of them in my Title 1 school) and test them again.  We have data meetings every 2 weeks to discuss various sources of data from benchmarks to reading level assessments to math unit tests to.......[/quote]

Who is "they" - are the benchmarks, data meetings and one-on-ones actually mandated by NCLB or are schools taking it upon themselves to do this?  [/quote]

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