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Fewer special ed students taking CSTs
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Since 2008, increasing numbers of low-performing special education students have been taking a new and easier standardized test rather than the California Standardized Tests. While it’s appropriate for many of them to take the California Modified Assessment, the exclusion of 185,000 special education students this year had the effect of appreciably boosting the statewide CST scores.
That’s been the contention of Doug McRae, a retired executive who oversaw the design of
Few bragging rights in student test scores - by Kathryn Baron
California students did better than ever on the state’s achievement tests. More of them scored at the proficient level or above in math and English than at any time since the testing program began in 2003. But the pace of change may put a twist on the fabled lesson of slow and steady wins the [...]
