| TESTS THAT BUILD IN FAILURE?
"Many analysts say that mass failure is precisely the goal of the people who designed the Common Core tests: if they define "mastery" as reading and doing math two grades above current grade level, then by definition all but a tiny fraction of students will fail, and these "experts" can proclaim that public education is a failure and must be abolished. Reading levels of the new PARCC were deliberately set so high that most students will give up. Russ Walsh scrutinized reading passages from the PARCC test for grades 3-8 to determine their readability and appropriateness for each grade level. He used five different measures of readability commonly used in assessing readability. "These results clearly show that even by the altered Lexile level standard the 4th grade passage is much too difficult for 4th grade children. ... |
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