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Which standards are bad, and in what way are they bad? [/quote]

Please document the results of testing and/or piloting of these standards.  
  
 
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How exactly would you test a standard?

Let's say a state standard is set that, for example, students should be able to multiply 2 digit numbers by the end of 4th grade with accuracy.   How can you pilot that standard?

Have two groups -- some that have this as a standard expected of them, and a control group where kids aren't expected to be able multiply 2 digit numbers with accuracy by the end of 4th grade?

At the end of the year, would you test both groups to see which can multiply 2-digit numbers better?   How would that be a good test of the standard?   Doesn't it stand to reason that instruction would be focused on multiplying 2 digit numbers in the first group, since it was a standard for that group?   So really you would be testing not the standard but the curriculum being used.

Explain how you would test a standard, because I really don't get it.   I get testing curriculum and teaching methods.   But he standard expectation at each grade level is essentially something that people just set.   There's no testing possible, and standards haven't ever been 'tested" in this way before.[/quote]

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