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Thursday, August 15, 2013

NY leaders unveil terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Common Core test results

By Ben Velderman at EAGnews.org

New Yorkers, listen up: It’s time to hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband, because the Common Core test results have just been released – and they’re bad. 
Really bad.
While most states are still debating the merits and costs of Common Core assessments, New York began testing its students on the new nationalized English and math standards this spring.  Common Core standards are said to emphasize a “deeper and more thorough” understanding of fewer topics.  At the time, state education officials warned that students would have difficulty with the new tests and that student scores would likely plummet.
Boy, were they right.
The Buffalo News reports only 31 percent of New York students in grades three through eight “met or exceeded the proficiency standards in English and math this year, a drop of more than half compared with last year.”  New York Education Commissioner John King Jr. attempted to soften the blow by saying the test results “establish a new baseline for student performance and student learning in New York State.”  Another K-12 official put this happy face on the unfolding disaster: “Student achievement did not go down – instead, the standards went up.”......New York schools are in serious trouble.  Between the selfish unionists and the busybody K-12 “experts” who are promoting this Common Core experiment, it’s fair to wonder if some of those schools – such as Buffalo – will ever recover....To Read More.....

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