| How come officials could predict new test score results?New scores from standardized tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards were released earlier this month in New York, and, as expected, the number of students who did well plummeted. This decline was predicted by New York State officials. How did they know? Here to explain in an eye-opening piece is award-winning Principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York, who has for more than a year chronicled on the test-driven reform in her state
What concerns me more, as MCPS begins to fully implement the Common Core approach to teaching, and we start giving the PARCC, is that the assessment judges kids (and teachers, and schools) using just one way of showing understanding. Yet, the CC emphasizes that kids can express their understanding in a wide variety of ways. |
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