Mercedes Schneider: The Collapse of PARCC and SBAC

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1. Bob Shepherd says:

   October 1, 2017 at 11:45 am

   PARCC (spell that backward) and the notSmarter imBAlanced Consortium are losing states rapidly, which was entirely predictable, but the punitive, pseudoscientific, curriculum-distorting, spirit-destroying numerology from other vendors like AIRy nothing continues unabated. The testing madness–which I refer to collectively as the Common Core Curriculum Commissariat Rank-ordering for All Assessment Program, or CCCCRAAP–is like one of those evil sorcerers from a West African folktale. It simply morphs, when attacked, into some other hideous form.

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   • ciedie aech says:

     October 1, 2017 at 1:08 pm

     PARCC and NCLB/R2T//ESSA together well described: pseudoscience which has learned how to morph whenever attacked.

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   • LeftCoastTeacher says:

     October 1, 2017 at 6:42 pm

     Love CCCCRAP, very funny indeed, but it’s really more like fascism than communism. It’s also PARCCay shmear, and it doesn’t taste at all like real butter. Hot AIR is equally fake, as far as science is concerned. And if we could just get Stupid Brainsick Affliction Corporation (SBAC) out of populous California, it would break the company’s bottom line and save our schools ©.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       October 2, 2017 at 5:18 pm

       Amen to that

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2. Bob Shepherd says:

   October 1, 2017 at 11:51 am

   Not being bright enough to recognize that the problems lie in the conception rather than in the implementation (or being participants in one of the test-vendors’ many Revolving Door Plans for State Bureaucrats), state-level administrators, when the test they are currently using blows up in their faces, simply order a different one from another vendor, while assuring everyone that, this time, the test isn’t going to be punitive, pseudoscientific, curriculum-distorting, spirit-destroying numerology but, rather, a magical potion for education-cure-all.

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   • Lisa M says:

     October 1, 2017 at 9:39 pm

     I live in MD. The test blows up in their faces, but they just double down with the SAME test. No…they don’t want a different vendor, but they want different results on the same test. So then they start tweaking the already abysmal common chore curriculum to try and make the test scores rise. I’m done with public school. I’m tired of waiting for the revolution. It’s private boys school for my rising HSer next year.

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3. SomeDAM poet says:

   October 1, 2017 at 1:41 pm

   “A PARCCollapse Now ”

   The writings on the wall
   The Common Core will fall
   The standard test
   Is under stress
   The PARCC is in a stall

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4. teacherken says:

   October 1, 2017 at 4:04 pm

   sadly, the two jurisdictions in which I still hold active teaching certificates, DC and Maryland (and I am now teaching in the latter) still are committed to PARCC. It is one of the things totally distorting meaningful teaching

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