Anonymous wrote:I think we really need to have some way to measure how much damage the pandemic and the resulting school closures had on learning in DC. For that purpose being able to compare PARCC scores this year with those prepandemic is helpful.

I'm not saying it's a great test, but it makes sense to have a way to figure out the impact the last couple of years have had on DC as a whole and particular schools. Administering the same test pre and post pandemic is the only way to do that.

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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.

If no state in the US uses the test how is Pearson raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from the US testing market?

Anonymous wrote:Your arguments don't do it for me. Go with a poor-quality, arguably punishing, 10-hour-long test that more than 20 states have either ditched or reworked in the last decade because, well, it's the best DC can do in the wake of pandemic school closures.

I think the best we can do by the kids is push to ditch the PARCC, including by opting out as individual families. If ed stakeholders don't challenge, the lousy PARCC won't be exiting the stage in the District anytime soon. Name a problem that went away because almost everybody hurt by rolled with it indefinitely.

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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.

Ok but you can still use PARCC to compare the kids in DC and how your kid is doing compared to his peers at his school and other schools. That is helpful information.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Anonymous wrote: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 ?

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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.

Hmm, who is in charge right now that can allow waivers like they did during the pandemic?

If it helps: Thanks Bush! Thanks Obama!

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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.

Hmm, who is in charge right now that can allow waivers like they did during the pandemic?

If it helps: Thanks Bush! Thanks Obama!

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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.