Last year, the College Board reported that SAT scores in reading and writing have hit record lows, while this year, the state of New York revealed its new, Common Core-based test results, which found that only 31percentt of its students in third through eighth grade met the standard in language arts.
As parents, politicians and reporters look to lay blame for New York's drop in student test scores, let's not forget to evaluate the Common Core-based tests themselves.
This means that, when students score poorly on the more rigorous Common Core-based tests, it threatens to cause a backlash among parents, who increasingly see testing as the problem, not the solution.
Early last year, New Jersey's Chris Cerf took an executive position at Amplify, which in 2013 had won a $12.5-million 12.5-milliondevelop a digital library of student-assessment tools from one of the state contracta toat were developing the Common Core-basedigital.
In 2018, we published a report titled "Are Turning Our Kids Into Zeroes: A Focus on Failing," which strongly suggests that many students have been unable to understand readings and write intelligible answers to Common Core-based questions about them on the statewide English Language Arts ELAA) tests.
While the move is good news, it is only a temporary, year-long hiatus as officials review the high-stakes Florida Standards Assessment, a new standardized test tied to Florida's Common Core-based standards and administered for the first time this spring.
State Rep. Charles Van Zant (R) said the American Institutes for Research, which has been assigned to develop Common Core-based tests for Florida, "are promoting as hard as they can, any youth that is interested in the LGBT agenda". Van Zant made those comments at the Operation Education Conference in Orlando back in March.
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They also said the curriculum was new, based on Common Core standards for the first time.
