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It's not just special needs kids who can't meet the standards. 70 percent of kids don't make the standards after a solid year of being taught this fabulous new way.

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So, that's not my experience, just looking at my school and the writing standards.   Our kids took the practice writing test and I'd say about 40% passed.  This is after one year of increased focus on writing coherent paragraphs, a skill which admittedly we hadn't been focusing on in the past.

With more months of improved writing instruction, I feel confident that that number will improve, in grads 3 and 4, to about 70% pass rate the first year and more in subsequent years.   Eventually all comprehensive ed kids should be able to pass.   ESOL and special ed kids, it depends on what year of ESOL they are in, and special Ed it depends on why they are in special ed.

The kids in middle school who lost years and years of proper writing instruction are going to have a much harder time catching up.   But I don't think we will only see 30% pass rate, certainly not after 2 or 3 years.   It's not that there's any better way of teaching, but the standards are now measuring skills that were only lightly, or never, stressed in past years.   It will take some time for kids to learn.
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