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Friday, March 29, 2013

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: Not very smart or balanced. – @ the chalk face

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: Not very smart or balanced. – @ the chalk face:


Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: Not very smart or balanced.

My turn to say it.
“The common core is nothing more than a new product designed to suck tax dollars from public schools.  The tax dollars will be spent on assessment systems that do nothing for children, teachers and schools.”
How do I know?  I received an invitation from the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities to review the Achievement Level Descriptors and College Content-Readiness on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s web site.  I went to the site and before I even had the chance to start my review I read:
ALDs describe performance on a standardized test in terms of levels or categories of performance.
Whoomp there it is!  
Anyone that knows anything about high stakes standardized tests knows that performance on these tests is