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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Getting rid of standards and testing won't make the poor kids read better either, in fact makes the problem worse, because it just sweeps the problem under the carpet and makes it even less likely to get funding and community support needed to help solve it.[/quote]

The unintended consequences have become an entrenched problem.  Maybe not at your school, but at way too many.

The solution is to have standards (of course) as we always have, but to stop the mandated federal testing.  Instead of the testing that is pointed toward the standards in such specific and narrow ways, have testing that is broader and can be used to get the funding that is needed as well.  This is possible.  And we need fewer, simpler, and shorter tests.  These tests are really not helping teachers to be better teachers (even in the wonderful schools that have great CC and testing implementation).   [/quote]

Testing was minimal disruption at DC's school - hardly the nightmare you'd like to make it out to be.  But that said, the testing could probably be improved, but again, that's also a LOCAL issue.  The feds aren't the ones developing the tests - PARCC, Smarter Balanced and other tests are all state-led efforts.[/quote]

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