Mercedes Schneider actually read the bulky contracts between states and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.
Her most surprising discovery:
SBAC promises: “Passing an SBAC high school summative assessment assures that students will not need remediation. SBAC really ensures college readiness!”
How do they know? When this was written into the contract, SBAC had not yet been created. Like PARCC, It was never tested.
Schneider concludes:
“This rushing to prematurely-declared success is a corporate reform hallmark.
Here we go again”
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I would like to promise that anyone that passes at least 2 years of HS Latin will become a Jesuit priest. And that dissecting a cat in Bio.2 correlates w/early alcoholism. And … what? My promises are no more/less unrealistic and excessively global than theirs.
“And that dissecting a cat in Bio.2 correlates w/early alcoholism.”
The research I’ve read states it has to be a fetal pig and not a cat!
The MBA credo, “While we’re often wrong, we’re always certain.”
So, ready for which colleges?
Harvard, MIT, Stanford? or
Cincinnati State, Corinthian, Kaplan U?
All hype. All of the time and from the get go. Your tax dollars and mine.
Also a major illegal allocation of funds from USDE to the contractors for SBAC.
The Common Core promises to prepare all students for entry level, Community College, not in a STEM field.
Get the contract first worry about delivering later should be illegal.
Interesting that Ohio’s includes that the tests must be used for decisions on grade promotion and graduation, yet parents were told again and again by the national marketing people that the tests “were not high stakes for students”.
So the sanctions on students will be put in at some later date, I assume, after the blowback has died down?
“Passing an SBAC high school summative assessment assures that students will not need remediation.”
The clue here is the word ‘passing’. Remember they don’t set that ‘passing’ score until after everyone has taken the test and they then grab a number out of their black hat.
I thought they grabbed the number from somewhere else.