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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So: the Common Core standards are bad because Illinois has decided to link test results to high school graduation?

In that case, the standards that Maryland had before adopting the Common Core standards must also be bad, because Maryland linked test results for those standards to high school graduation.[/quote]

It's idiotic to link standards that you haven even used to graduation, yes. It's even more idiotic to set your cut scores arbitrarily so 70 percent of students fail.

If 70 percent of students are failing, [b]you are teaching the wrong things in the wrong way[/b], or testing the wrong things in the wrong way, or both. [/quote]

Exactly. You are teaching the wrong things in the wrong way! That's exactly it. And as people begin to teach the right things in the right way, more students will be able to do the things they should be able to do (which is good), and more students will score at proficient or higher on the tests.[/quote]

Except for Kentucky has been giving Pearson tests, the forerunner of PARCC, for three years now, with little change in test scores. 3 years, a quarter of a child's education, is a long time to waste on standards that aren't making sense. [/quote]

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