Anonymous wrote: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.

Most states are waiving spring testing, most recently Maryland.

Anonymous wrote:So it's only used to check a federal accountability requirement, but other than checking that box it helps students and education in general about zilch.

Thanks, Biden? Congress?

Thanks, Biden?! Dear God. Go do some reading about No Child Left Behind. Save your ire until you have some appropriate background for the conversation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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

No one is using PARCC. No one.

DC renewed it's 5-year PARCC contract in 2019. Probably 2 more PARCCs after this spring, which sucks.

There's no pressure for change. Parents aren't organized to opt out as in many states, OSSE, the Mayor and other city politicians could care less than the PARCC isn't a quality test.

I would have thought that covid would have given them a way out of this nightmarish assessment tool

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with the PARCC test? My kids are young, so I don't know much about standardized testing.

10 hours long for...8 year olds. Some states go with tests that take 4 or 5 hours to complete. Features a good many poorly written and confusing questions. Much unappealing/dry content. Kids need to be able to type to write an essay, so as much a typing test as an English test in that section. Math is mostly word problems, which clobbers English Language Learners who may be good at math. Pearson Education Inc., which creates the PARCC is a British company raking in hundreds of millions of dollars annually from its US testing market, which doesn't sit well with some American consumers. This one has opted out of the PARCC twice and will do so again at our DCPS in May.

What's wrong with the PARCC test? My kids are young, so I don't know much about standardized testing.

Because they’re federally mandated to use a standardized test and they haven’t created a new one, so they’re stuck with PARCC for the time being.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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

But why after three years would our officials choose to take this test that no other state is taking?

The six page thread doesn't address this

So it's only used to check a federal accountability requirement, but other than checking that box it helps students and education in general about zilch.

Thanks, Biden? Congress?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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

No one is using PARCC. No one.

Nope

Anonymous wrote: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.

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

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.

Will kids need it to get into high school?

Students haven't taken the PARCC since 2019.

Zero states still take the PARCC.

Why are we still talking about it in reference to quantifying student proficiency ?