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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may want to check out the 6 page thread on this very topic: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1032577.page

And, it's relevant because DC doesn't have another test ready to go at the moment and federal law mandates accountability testing of some kind.[/quote]

This.  [b]Kids need some type of standardized test to see how they are doing in general and compared to peers. [/b]DC happens to pick PARCC which is not the best[/quote]

And it also makes it difficult to norm against peer performance when no other states take it! But Bill Gates and Pearson Education are living pretty high on the hog from it. Follow the money.[/quote]

If kids need a test to tell us how they're doing in general and compared to peers then why do the highest-performing school systems in the world avoid standardized tests for elementary and middle school-age kids, including Singapore, Finland, the city of Shang'hai and the Netherlands?  What we're doing here in the US is BETTER than what these countries are doing?

The reality is that there are no shortcuts to improving educational outcomes for poor kids.  If a society won't provide optimal inputs, not much point in obsessively, and expensively, measuring sub-optimal outputs every year.[/quote]

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