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But a school district cannot regulate or control the home environment. They can, however, control the standards. So, they do what they can. [/quote]

[b]More progress could be made if they eliminated the tests and concentrated on helping the kids.[/b]  It's not the standards.  You don't teach standards, you teach kids.  CC seems to forget that.
  
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Unfortunately, this goes back to square one.  Too many kids were allowed to move up a grade or graduate without being able to read at a certain level because there were no standards or testing to catch such issues.  Yes, in an ideal world, every child would have a good home environment and all teachers would care about the kids and be great teachers, but sadly, this is not the case.  If it were, then *maybe* we wouldn't need testing to ensure kids don't fall through the cracks.   I think we still need standards, however, because some districts could decide to have really low standards, then what do you have?  A whole bunch of kids that can only read at a MS level, while a neighboring district has kids reading at college level.  How is that fair to the kids in the "lower" standard districts?

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