"He said without the testing results, educators will have a harder time identifying learning gaps in the student population and that results will be less reliable."
The students are to blame for the inability of the teachers to teach ...
Posted on 04/25/2015 3:04:18 PM PDT by lowbridge
Not a single 11th grade student showed up to take the SBAC test at Nathan Hale High School this week, a Seattle Public Schools spokesperson confirmed.
The news that 100% of the 11th graders opted out of the test was first reported on an education blog.
State Superintendent Randy Dorn released a statement Friday on the potential "fallout" from students opting out of testing. Dorn said there could be academic and financial consequences for the state of Washington if students don't take the SBAC.
"No test is perfect. But the Smarter Balanced tests, with their emphasis on real-world skills, are better than any standardized test our state has administered before," Dorn said in a statement.
He said without the testing results, educators will have a harder time identifying learning gaps in the student population and that results will be less reliable. Dorn also pointed to federal expectations, saying that without a 95% participation rate, the Department of Education could cut funding to schools and label Washington as "high risk."
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"He said without the testing results, educators will have a harder time identifying learning gaps in the student population and that results will be less reliable."
The students are to blame for the inability of the teachers to teach ...
What is the beef with these tests again? Is it some kind of propaganda, or what? I would think that after we hear all these stories about kids not knowing squat when they apply for jobs, that some kind of tests to see that they actually are being taught things would be a good idea.
Get rid of the unconstitutional Dept of Ed!
Have you seen a Common Core test? You are not allowed to add and subtract as generations who invented all our electronic gadgets and got us to the moon did. Nope. l The students have to draw pictures to add….absolutely ludicrous, a total waste of time and money spent on these crazy curriculum objectives.
Everything I have seen of common core is NOT a good idea.
“What is the beef with these tests again? Is it some kind of propaganda, or what? I would think that after we hear all these stories about kids not knowing squat when they apply for jobs, that some kind of tests to see that they actually are being taught things would be a good idea.”
It identifies useful idiots who will then get the scholarships.
May this serve as inspiration to schoolkids everywhere. You don’t have to be drones!
Common Core is truly Nuckin Futs.
And a pretty good indicator of why NO politician should be elected who supports this garbage. Think Jeb Bush, he loves it.
Nice graphic.
I remember CTBS testing in my elementary school. I absolutely hated those standardized tests. All we did in 3, 4, 5, and 6th grades was study how to take the stupid CTBS tests.
Yeah, I’ve seen those ludicrous math solutions. I can imagine the other subjects are as screwed up. That, I also object to. But standardized testing aimed at actually improving standards I have no problem with. Too many kids skate out of school with diplomas and no knowledge.
This issue is another reason why the 17th Amendment (17A) should never have been ratified.
More specifically, I wouldn’t be suprised if educator Mr. Dorn is clueless that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes.
The Supreme Court had put it this way.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The reason that this is a 17A-related issue is the following. The Founding States had not only established the federal Senate, but had given the power to vote for federal senators uniquely to state lawmakers. The idea was that senators would protect their states in Congress by killing bills that not only stole 10th Amendment-protected state powers, but also stole state revenues associated with those powers.
But as a consequence of 17A, low-information people like Dorn go home after voting for their favorite federal senators and watch football, clueless that their corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills that establish funding for intrastate schooling purposes.
And what’s worse is that thug senators then confirm activist justices who decide that unconstitutional laws, like those which fund intrastate schooling, are constitutional.
What a racket!
The most unconstitutionallly powerful office in the country is the Senate, not the Oval Office.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
Public education is supposed to have standards set by states and local school districts. Instead of teaching a curriculum with individualization where appropriate, teaching is geared to the test instead of the students. Creativity is defined by what's acceptable on the test. Curriculum choices are controlled by what's tested instead of schools providing skills that might better prepare students for participation in their community and the job opportunities there. Students are labelled as to ability at a very early age, instead of accounting for different paces of learning. Teachers are being trained on how to prepare students for the test instead of in how to identify and nuture their individual talents. Much time is wasted on force-feeding students with less than average ability things like advanced math, at the expense of the more capable students who would benefit from that attention. Massive amounts of time and money are wasted on testing.
Is that enough?
No one ever is. Common Core is slowly sliding out of favor. By the time a teacher/administrator could be fired for the poor results that come from bad teaching and bad schools, Common Core will be a thing of the past, and they'll be on to something else.
I agree with you. My grandaughter brought home a ‘practice test’ in math. OH my G*D! one problem took up an entire pages. 95% of the test was writing about how to determine the perimeter of an rectangle and then using that information compute the area of the same rectangle. She had to use columns of boxes to do so too.
And the infuriating part for me was that she wouldn’t listen to me on how to do it the ‘old way’. She said her teacher told the class to ignore their parents and do it the way the common core’ book said to do it.
Those aren’t really math problems. They are brainwashing to rely on the whims of authority.
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