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Common Core Computer Crack-up
Accuracy in Academia ^ | December 6, 2015 | Malcolm A. Kline

Posted on 12/08/2015 7:47:11 AM PST by Academiadotorg

What do Common Core and Obamacare have in common, other than the enthusiasm they engender in the White House and widespread disappointment they generate outside of it? Both programs have fatal computer glitches.

"New Hampshire-based company Measured Progress, which developed online Common Core tests used in Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota, has acknowledged a major glitch in the tests' rollout," Chris Neal reported in School Reform News. "Technical malfunctions, such as servers crashing during testing, resulted in only 37 percent of Nevada students being able to take their exams."

"Meanwhile, Montana and North Dakota only managed to test 76 percent and 84 percent of students, respectively." That would put Measured Progress in hot competition with the servers that deliver Obamacare for the dubious distinction of delivering the worst computer system to get a federal contract. School Reform News is published by the Heartland Institute.

"Though Measured Progress admitted the online test completion rate in all three states failed to meet the federal mandate of 95 percent of 3rd through 8th graders, the company denies any breach of contract," Neal goes on to report. "Measured Progress was tasked with rolling out the Common Core-aligned Smarter Balanced assessments online for all three states."


TOPICS: Government; US: Montana; US: Nevada; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: commoncore; computers; obamacare

1 posted on 12/08/2015 7:47:11 AM PST by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

This is the basis for a Commie core math prob.

If the Govt. servers only work 37% of the time, how will we get hellary elected?

Show your work in 10-frames.


2 posted on 12/08/2015 7:50:27 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: Academiadotorg

There is absolutely nothing associated with this regime that works. It is all crony payoffs to redistribute the nations wealth to the “friends of the king”. Every nation, before it collapses raids its own treasury for the benefit of the in crowd.


3 posted on 12/08/2015 7:52:39 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

Precisely correct. It’s smash and grab on a giant scale.


4 posted on 12/08/2015 7:57:17 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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5 posted on 12/08/2015 7:57:22 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Academiadotorg

The code writers are probably New Math and Common Core math grads, where real math and accuracy are evil.


6 posted on 12/08/2015 8:06:11 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama has groomed CAIR to be THE voice of Islam in the USA as a dangerous political force in the USA)
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To: Academiadotorg

If the answer to 2+2=4 then the test is wrong.


7 posted on 12/08/2015 9:16:14 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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