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You get what you ask for…

@Larryferlazzo @alicemercer By PARCC Blueprints this % unacceptable. Reporting inaccurate or field tested items not reflecting final product
— Dea Conrad-Curry (@doctordea) July 16, 2013

Basically, the teacher who are reporting on the New York State test may have seen so many questions on structural choices of the author, but these are likely just questions placed as part of “field testing” and will not count in scoring. That may well be what the state of New York and Pearson intended. But, even if Dea is right, and Grant Wiggins is right, I can tell you right now, teachers gonna teach what they think is gonna be tested. I’ve been in two Common Core trainings already where teachers have stated they were going to skip some standards because they would not be tested (oral language), or would not have a lot of test questions (one of the math standards) — this even though we have fewer math standards to cover with Common Core. This testing has so corrupted us that we have forgotten that we are preparing our students for the ne