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The only way we are going to get away from this insanity is to stop the mandated high stakes testing.  Once the high stakes testing is gone, we can work on standards that make sense.  As long as the high stakes testing is in place, we are forced to teach based on standards that have not been vetted and that don't make sense.  You really can't make up how absurd this is.  [/quote]

We've been through that one a dozen times already also.  The only reason you call it "high stakes testing" is because teachers are also being evaluated on performance.  As though teachers were never before in history evaluated on performance... (again naivete on your part) and you fail to acknowledge that the educational achievement of students is the "high stakes"  issue here which does not go away if you get rid of testing.  All you've done then is bury and hide problems with student achievement by getting rid of testing.

Seems the anti-CCer motto is "if you don't have a better solution to the problem, hide it and pretend it doesn't exist" :roll:[/quote]

However, high-stakes testing does cause problems of its own:

http://www.amazon.com/Tested-American-School-Struggles-Grade/dp/0805088024
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/21/wrong-answer[/quote]

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