Posted on 01/21/2015 6:17:43 AM PST by artichokegrower
Just as school districts throughout California gear up for a new testing system, some education experts want top education officials to postpone using the results to grade schools.
Experts are raising questions about whether an earlier trial run generated reliable information, if enough schools are using the standards and about a lack of technology to administer the test at some schools. Retired testing expert Doug McRae has expressed his reservations with the new system since last year, after he visited several schools in Monterey County and found that the Common Core Standards were only being used in a few of them.
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Hide the decline. It’s not just for Global Warming anymore.
When the Left fails, it is in the Leftist media’s interest to side with the
politicians who initiated the failing policies.
The school district in which I teach is requiring elementary students to stay after school once a week to learn how to navigate through the tests’ technology. The little kids have to learn how to drag and drop (using a mouse not a tablet), how to copy/paste, and what the video symbols mean and how to use them (play, rewind, pause, etc.). At the high school, we are using the third grade practice test to prep the students for the tech issues. As it turns out, children are not as tech savvy as we think when it comes to interactive software and websites. Instagram? No problem. This? Big problem.
A coworker said he brother went to HBS, and a Mac was included n the tuition in the 1980s.
The sad truth is that kids in the 12th grade are being tested on material appropriate to the 9th grade level. They should have no issues in passing these exams other than that public schools have either become day care centers or centers for leftist indoctrination. Maybe both.
The kids must be thrilled with that.
I’m not sure about California, but the PARCC tests Ohio school children will take are just the opposite. The ninth grade language arts sample test that I took was brutal. I knew the content due to my degrees, but the content is far beyond what a ninth grader has been exposed to. Additionally, the questions are awkwardly worded. I was constantly trying to figure out what it was that I was supposed to do. We’re looking at a disaster in Ohio, which was planned by PARCC and Pearson. They are getting billions for their role in this debacle, and they will get even more $$$ to “fix” the problems that are going to arise. The PARCC testing failure will make the healthcare website look like a slight oversight.
It seems like parents are finally starting to get angry. Let’s hope this keeps up. It will be parents, not teachers, that get rid of CC and the cronies at PARCC and Pearson. I’d love to know to which politcians’ campaigns those companies donate.
Before PARCC there was ADP. Another consortium, and it fell apart when the federal dollars went away...or that was at least part of the reason.
According to wiki, 23 states and the District of Columbia was the high-water mark for PARCC, now down to 12 states.
As someone who works in the educational testing business, I don’t think it will be around all that long...unless the republicans decide to keep it federally funded. I am not sure of the funding schedule for PARCC, probably scheduled a bit different than ADP, but I don’t think states are signing on at this point.
Parents don’t like the data mining aspect of it either.
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