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[b]PARCC and Smarter Balanced say they fully plan on 50 to 70 percent of ALL children failing these tests.[/b] Many -- maybe most -- children will fail them every year. In many states you must pass these tests to move forward or graduate.

What will we do with 70 percent or even 50 percent of a population with no high school diploma, which is now required for even places like Walmart? And forget about cosmetology school.

There are long-range, severe consequences to saying everyone must be "college ready"  and making a high school diploma have college-ready standards.

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Where do they say this?[/quote]

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/11/17/13sbac.h34.html

Cutoff Scores Set for Common-Core Tests
By Catherine Gewertz

In a move likely to cause political and academic stress in many states, a consortium that is designing assessments for the Common Core State Standards released data Monday [b]projecting that more than half of students will fall short of the marks that connote grade-level skills on its tests of English/language arts and mathematics.[/b]

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium test has four achievement categories. Students must score at Level 3 or higher to be considered proficient in the skills and knowledge for their grades. According to cut scores approved Friday night by the 22-state consortium, 41 percent of 11th graders ...[/quote]

“Because the new content standards set higher expectations for students and the new tests are designed to assess student performance against those higher standards, the bar has been raised. It’s not surprising that fewer students could score at Level 3 or higher. However, over time the performance of students will improve,” said Willhoft.

http://www.edweek.org/media/achievement-levels-and-scale-scores-final.pdf

The counter-argument seems to be that the Common Core standards are bad because many students are currently unable to meet them. But it's the fact that many students are currently unable to meet the standards that's the problem, not the standards themselves.

Here is a third-grade math standard:

CCSS.Math.Content.3.NBT.A.1
Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

If lots of third-graders are currently unable to meet this standard, should we throw out the standard? Or should we improve math education, so that in the future, most third-graders will be able to meet this standard?[/quote]

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