Posted on 11/13/2015 4:02:02 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Edited on 11/15/2015 5:42:27 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Parental concerns about student privacy have been rising in recent years amid the growing use by schools, school districts and states use technology to collect mountains of detailed information on students. Last year, a controversial $100 million STUDENT DATA COLLECTION project funded by the GATES FOUNDATION and operated by a specially created nonprofit organization called inBloom was forced to shut down because of these concerns, an episode that served as a warning to parents about just how much information about their children is being shared without their knowledge.
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Are you even watching the News?
Bkmk
It takes a village
And all their databases
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I’m listening to Sky News live stream while reading. I can pray while working, too.
Sorry, but my point is that I don’t think anyone is interested about data collection tonight.
Not my kids....they are HOME SCHOOLED.
Clearly Reagan understated his "thousand year" prophecy.
“Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)”
Probably drinking coffee with Jan Sobieski.
I hope they are sharpening their swords.
btt
Who gave permission for this?
I am, for one. Who might you be, to decide how everyone should direct their interest?
Good that my kids are the smartest in the school :)
Common core writ large.
What? You want to turn FR into CNN? Try multi-tasking. FR doesn't need 10,000 identical threads about France.
Coo on core and now this?
Screw you Bill Gates.
Madison Superintendent provides Parents with the truth about the Common Core SBAC Test
Nov 13
jonpeltoClark Elementary School, Education Reform, Opt-Out, Smarter Balanced Assessment Test, Standardized Testing, Thomas Scarice Superintendent of Madison Common Core, Corporate Education Reform Industry, Madison, SBAC, Smarter Balanced Assessment Test, Standardized Testing, Thomas Scarice 4 Comments
As George Orwell wrote in his initially classified book of fiction,
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
To which it is well to remember the words of Winston Churchill who observed,
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
If you had a child in the Madison, Connecticut public schools you’d have a superintendent, school administrators and Board of Education that was committed to telling the truth about the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing System and dedicated to putting children, parents, teachers and their public schools above the Corporate Education Reform Industry’s ongoing attempt to undermine public education in the United States.
If you had a children in the Madison, Connecticut public schools you would have received the following a letter from Superintendent Thomas Scarice and Assistant Superintendent Gail Dahling-Hench, a letter that honestly and truthfully explains why the Common Core SBAC test is not an appropriate tool or mechanism to judge our children, their teachers or our public schools.
The letter to Madison Parents states;
Individual Student Reports for the 2015 Smart Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) standardized test were mailed this week. This specific report format is provided to the district by the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) and is a product of the national Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, consisting of 18 states.
Tests are designed with a purpose. The SBAC test was designed to measure the college and career readiness level of students through their achievement on the Connecticut Core educational standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics in grades 3-8 and 11. In addition, as in prior years, the science CMT/CAPT test was administered in Grades 5, 8, and 10.
One singular test provides an extraordinarily limited view of individual student performance. This particular test is based on an incomplete view of “college and career readinessâ€. In fact, this test endeavors to provide parents and educators with a predictive measure of an individual student’s college and career readiness by mere achievement of educational standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics. The reliability of these predictions is imprecise and suspect at best.
Resources provided by the CSDE clearly state that characterizing a student’s achievement solely in terms of falling in one of four categories (levels) is an oversimplification, and that the specific achievement levels should not be interpreted as infallible predictors of students’ futures.
Perhaps most concerning in the student reports is the definitive nature of the claims made about an individual student based on one test. This can be found in the language that declares whether or not your child has “met the achievement level†expected for a specific grade, and whether or not your child will need “substantial support to get back on track for success in the next gradeâ€. These claims are particularly alarming given the inadequacies, imperfections, and lack of reliable evidence on one singular test to make such assertions. A balance of assessment tools at the school level provides a more complete picture of individual student performance, as well as timely and actionable data. We encourage parents to look at student performance over various measures when understanding the academic performance of their child.
You are also invited to review the March 2015 report commissioned by the SBAC entitled, Making Good Use of New Assessments. This report conveys numerous cautions about the use, and most importantly, the misuse of these scores.
When examining your student report, we ask that you refer to the online parent interpretive guide provided by the CSDE.
We hope you find this summary helpful when examining the enclosed results for your student. If you have questions about this report….
You can read the letter at: http://www.madison.k12.ct.us/page.cfm?p=2723&newsid=1201
When every superintendent, school administrator and Board of Education are willing to speak the truth about the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scam we will have taken a gigantic step forward in our battle to put the world “public†back into our nation’s system of public education.
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