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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