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re: "Open letter to my students" by Jessica Lifshitz. What does this mean?
Posted on 3/5/15 at 5:55 pm to buckeye_vol
Posted on 3/5/15 at 5:55 pm to buckeye_vol
Is this PARCC test that controversial? Lots of recent articles on this topic.
Forbes just released this article 10 hours ago.
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Forbes just released this article 10 hours ago.
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Posted on 3/5/15 at 6:06 pm to LSU1NSEC
Ebr is designing all of our unit tests using PARCC. Believe me, everything she says is true. Our students are mostly reading 3-4 years behind their current grade levels, and most of the reading materials on the exams are college level texts. Also, there are 20+ questions and 8-10 pages of reading. Then there is an essay. They have an hour and forty minutes to complete all of it. They mostly fail....big time! These tests are horrible and truly make them feel stupid or so overwhelmed that they give up. Eff PARCC!
Posted on 3/5/15 at 6:21 pm to lsufan9193969700
quote:This is tangential, but I have trouble understanding the Grade-level designation of certain skills.
Our students are mostly reading 3-4 years behind their current grade levels, and most of the reading materials on the exams are college level texts.
For example, I'll hear random statistics like 80% of students in such and such grade cannot read on grade level. Now given that the expectations have risen for students, and again, each generation has been consistently more intelligent than the previous, I assume that this would have held true for students in that same grade level across years.
So if the vast majority of students in a particular grade have skills (which are normally distributed) below grade level, then maybe that grade level standard is incorrect.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 6:35 pm to lsufan9193969700
Common Core is one of those things in everyones profession, that simply is an abysmal failure from day 1. And as in every other profession, despite the very obvious flaws, there are those that cheerlead the hell out it, never realizing that the platform they are standing on is about to collapse (think New Coke).
PARCC assessment is now done to 8 states. Smarter balance is down to 16 states (the other national test).
Together they comprise 24 states, which even without CC training, one can easily surmise is less than half the states. Its really no longer a national curriculum, or comparison
At some point its simply useless to continue trying to get everyone to agree to like New Coke, or Edsel, or Betamax, or laser discs, or common core
PARCC assessment is now done to 8 states. Smarter balance is down to 16 states (the other national test).
Together they comprise 24 states, which even without CC training, one can easily surmise is less than half the states. Its really no longer a national curriculum, or comparison
At some point its simply useless to continue trying to get everyone to agree to like New Coke, or Edsel, or Betamax, or laser discs, or common core
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