By Diane Ravitch | Published August 8, 2013 by NY Daily News
Excerpt:
The one certain result of the Common Core standards is that they cause test scores to plummet. Kentucky saw its passing rates fall by 30 percentage points using the Common Core. New York students have experienced the same blow.
So now, overnight, thanks to Common Core testing, the majority of students across the state and in the city are failures. That means that the schools are now required (by the state’s rules) to provide “academic intervention services” for them, which will take money away from the arts, physical education, foreign languages, history, civics and other essential subjects.
Who should parents and the public hold accountable for the collapse of test scores? Not the students and not the teachers, but state education officials. They make the rules that determine curriculum, standards, teacher qualifications and other factors that affect how schools function. They have changed the tests and the scoring repeatedly. They hold the reins of power.
If this year’s abysmal test scores were a genuine reflection of student achievement — and they are not — the regents would be the responsible party.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/punishing-kids-adult-failures-article-1.1420622
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