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a*****g
发帖数: 19398
1
By Kate Zerniki
BOSTON - It has been one of the most stubborn problems in education: With 50
states, 50 standards and 50 tests, how could anyone really know what
American students were learning, or how well?
At a dinner with colleagues in 2009, Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts's
commissioner of education, hatched what seemed like an obvious answer - a
national test based on the Common Core standards that almost every state had
recently adopted.
Now Dr. Chester finds himself in the awkward position of walking away from
the very test he helped create.
On his recommendation, the State Board of Education decided last week that
Massachusetts would go it alone and abandon the multistate test in favor of
one to be developed for just this state. The move will cost an extra year
and unknown millions of dollars.
Across the country, what was once bipartisan consensus around national
standards has collapsed into acrimony about the Common Core, with states
dropping out of the two national tests tied to it that had been the
centerpiece of the Obama administration's education strategy.
But no about-face has resonated more than the one in Massachusetts, for
years a leader in education reform. This state embraced uniform standards
and tests with consequences more than two decades before the Common Core,
and by 2005, its children led all states in the National Assessment of
Educational Progress, often called the nation's report card, and rose above
all other countries, save Singapore, in science. [SEE http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/national_assessment_of_educational_progress/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier ]
The state's participation was seen as validation of the Common Core and the
multistate test; Dr. Chester became the chairman of the board that oversees
the test Massachusetts joined. The state's rejection of that test sounded
the bell on common assessments, signaling that the future will now look much
like the past - with more tests, but almost no ability to compare the
difference between one state and another.
"It's hugely symbolic because Massachusetts is widely seen as kind of the
gold standard in successful education reform," said Morgan Polikoff, an
assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California,
who is leading an evaluation of the national tests. "It opens the door for a
lot of other states that are under a lot of pressure to repeal Common Core.
Getting rid of these tests is a nice bone to throw."
The fight in Massachusetts has been dizzying, with a strange alliance
between the teachers' union and a conservative think tank that years before
had been a chief proponent of the state's earlier drive for standards and
high-stakes tests. As in other states, conservatives complained of federal
overreach into local schooling, while the union objected to tying the tests
to teacher evaluations. The debate drew money from national political
players like the billionaire David Koch and the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.
Amid the noise, many parents had trouble understanding what the Common Core
was, or argued that the nation's public schoolchildren took too many tests.
So while parents and students here did not opt out of testing in the waves
they did in places like New York and New Jersey, they also did not express
much support. [SEE http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/nyregion/new-york-state-students-standardized-tests.html ]
"It's much more about politics than it is about education," said Tom Scott,
the executive director of the state superintendents' association, which had
encouraged the state to keep the multistate test. [SEE http://www.massupt.org/pages/MASS ]
People on either side of the debate here still celebrate the Massachusetts
Education Reform Act of 1993 as "the grand bargain." Democratic legislators
and the Republican governor at the time, William F. Weld, agreed to give
schools more money in exchange for ambitious standards defining what
students were expected to learn and new tests tied to those standards,
including one that, by 2003, students had to pass to graduate from high
school.
But while state scores rose, there were still hints that the new standards
were not teaching the skills students needed. The number requiring remedial
education in college remained high. So the state joined in when the National
Governors Association began drafting what became the Common Core, a
description of the skills students should learn by the time they graduated
from high school. Because of the state's expertise, large numbers of its
teachers joined in writing the standards. The state adopted them in 2010.
Dr. Chester and his counterparts in Louisiana and Florida proposed that
states also combine resources on a test, not only to compare results but to
afford a better test design.
As states rolled out the new tests over the last two years, parents and
teachers pushed back in states from Oregon to Florida. There were technical
glitches, as well as complaints that the exams were too hard and too long.
When states began reporting poor results, parents and policy makers did not
necessarily see the benefit of comparing their schools with others.
But at hearings here this fall, many superintendents and teachers testified
that the new test, known as Parcc, for the Partnership for the Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers, had improved what was happening in
classrooms. Given the choice between the state's old test and the multistate
test this spring, more than half the state's school districts chose Parcc.
[SEE http://www.parcconline.org/ ]
"If we revert back to the old standards, all this work will have been for
naught," said Dianne Kelly, the superintendent in Revere, who credits the
standards for tripling the number of students taking algebra in eighth grade
and doubling the number taking Advanced Placement courses.
The opposition came from what might have once seemed an unlikely place, the
Pioneer Institute, a conservative think tank that had been a driver behind
the higher standards in the 1993 legislation. It had hired Tom Birmingham,
who as a Democratic state senator had been a co-author of that legislation.
He warned that the state would be pressured to lower standards as other
states hid failure by lowering the bar for passing.
"It becomes not a race to the top but a race to the middle," Mr. Birmingham
said in an interview.
The federal government was not involved in writing the Common Core. But
Pioneer, like other conservative groups, argued that the Obama
administration had forced it on states by granting money to the national
tests. As part of its Race to the Top program, the administration in 2010
awarded about $350 million to design the Parcc and the other national test,
known as Smarter Balanced.
That argument persuaded even educators who believed the Common Core was
improving what happened in the classroom.
"It was almost like extortion - if you want this money, you have to do
things the way we want," said Todd Gazda, the superintendent in Ludlow, near
the western Massachusetts city of Springfield.
The president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, Paul Toner, had
supported the Parcc test. But in 2014, the membership elected a new
president, Barbara Madeloni, who had campaigned against high-stakes tests,
period. [SEE https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/06/05/
massachusetts-teachers-association-new-president-rejects-assessments-testing
-and-other-education-policies/N4LWsYjMXyc3ON98pxnPJP/story.html ]
"It is destructive to our students and our teachers and the very possibility
of joyful and meaningful public education," Dr. Madeloni said in an
interview.
"We've really flipped the narrative in a year," she said.
Supporters of the standards countered that Pioneer's biggest donors include
Mr. Koch and the Walton Family Foundation, funders of other conservative
causes. Jim Stergios, Pioneer's executive director, said, "David Koch never
talked to me about Common Core."
Supporters of Parcc also accused its opponents of distorting facts. The
opponents argued, for instance, that the new standards squeezed out
literature and poetry. In fact, Common Core requires students to read more
nonfiction, but only because it requires them to do expository reading in
all subjects, including science and math.
"The opposition was making some wild claims that the proponents answered
with factual information, assuming that everyone would take a very rational
approach to the facts and reach a valid conclusion," said Linda M. Noonan,
the executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education,
a proponent of higher standards. "But that isn't how the public process
works." [SEE http://www.mbae.org/ ]
The multistate exam was not the only one in the glut of testing, but it
became the most toxic.
"We blew it," said Mr. Scott, at the state superintendents' association. "
That's too bad, because there's a lot of good that's going out with it."
Making his recommendation for a new test to the state board of education, Dr
. Chester described it as the best of both worlds. The new test will use
Parcc content, which better reflects the Common Core, but the state will
maintain the flexibility to change or add material without having to go
through a committee of multiple states.
Dr. Chester said Massachusetts would remain in the Parcc consortium so it
could compare results with other states.
"We're increasingly a global world," he said. "And the idea that 50
different states in the United States had 50 different definitions of what
it means to be literate and what it means to know math - and on top of that
those 50 states had 50 different assessments to determine whether you're
literate or whether you know math - makes little sense."
But with states dropping out of the tests, comparisons remain elusive. Parcc
began as a cooperation between 26 states, but now only six and the District
of Columbia will use the test. Smarter Balanced began with 31 states - some
states joined both groups - and now counts 15. Three states have repealed
the Common Core altogether, and here a proposed ballot initiative would do
the same. [SEE http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-secretary-education-duncan-announces-winners-competition-improve-student-assessments ]
Concerns about the tests have become self-fulfilling. Officials in
Massachusetts said that the multistate test had become less appealing now
that there were fewer states to compare and that they feared that Parcc
would fail, leaving them without a test. Lawmakers in states still using the
test point to the states' withdrawing as evidence that it is not valid.
Still, Michael Cohen, the president of Achieve, a nonprofit founded by
business groups and governors that helped states draft the Common Core,
noted that even in states that are re-examining it and the Common Core, most
are sticking with the higher standards.
"The notion that the Parcc brand is somehow toxic, that has happened and
will continue to happen," he said. "But at the end of the day, there will be
, in the overwhelming majority of states, standards that are still highly
common."
------------------------------------
SIDEBAR PHOTO: Elizabeth DiNolo, center, a teacher at Rumney Marsh Academy
in Revere, Mass., handed out graded tests in her eighth-grade algebra class
this month. Credit Charlie Mahoney for The New York Times
-------------------------------------
SIDEBAR PHOTO: The president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association,
Barbara Madeloni, standing left, who has spoken out against high-stakes
tests, at a campaign house party this month. She is seeking re-election.
Credit Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times
--------------------------------------
SIDEBAR PHOTO: Mitchell Chester, the Massachusetts commissioner of
education
Credit Charlie Mahoney for The New York Times
--------------------------------------
Correction: November 29, 2015
An article last Sunday about Massachusetts' decision to drop an educational
standards test, known as Parcc, in favor of one designed for the state alone
misstated the number of states that will continue to use the Parcc. It is
six (and the District of Columbia), not five.
---------------------------------------
A version of this article appears in print on November 22, 2015, on page A1
of the New York edition with the headline: Rejecting Test, Massachusetts
Shifts Its Model.
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f**********n
发帖数: 29853
2
安安猪,我对common core没关心过,读了一遍你的帖子。你看看我理解他不成功的原
因对不对。
它想定义一个一统天下的测试,结果根本达不到各州之间可以比较的目的,然后老师为
了测验,工作量也大了。最后,那些为了测试做的准备对聪明娃反而是巨大的负担。
我还遗漏了啥?真心学习,望赐教。

50
had

【在 a*****g 的大作中提到】
: By Kate Zerniki
: BOSTON - It has been one of the most stubborn problems in education: With 50
: states, 50 standards and 50 tests, how could anyone really know what
: American students were learning, or how well?
: At a dinner with colleagues in 2009, Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts's
: commissioner of education, hatched what seemed like an obvious answer - a
: national test based on the Common Core standards that almost every state had
: recently adopted.
: Now Dr. Chester finds himself in the awkward position of walking away from
: the very test he helped create.

a*****g
发帖数: 19398
3
common core 我一条一条研究了几十遍,没发现大的问题。
(就发现了某一年的版本的某个章节的 copy paste的typo)
common core 从开始的时候各州热情激昂,
到现在各州群情激愤鸡飞狗跳,
都是同一拨的人。
都说自己是为了孩子,搞各种扯皮,最后倒霉的是孩子是社会。

With
a
from

【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: 安安猪,我对common core没关心过,读了一遍你的帖子。你看看我理解他不成功的原
: 因对不对。
: 它想定义一个一统天下的测试,结果根本达不到各州之间可以比较的目的,然后老师为
: 了测验,工作量也大了。最后,那些为了测试做的准备对聪明娃反而是巨大的负担。
: 我还遗漏了啥?真心学习,望赐教。
:
: 50
: had

f**********n
发帖数: 29853
4
多谢了。
研究了一下,我们州也已经在去年放弃了。
读了几篇新闻,感觉是权力的集中化和地方化之争。不象我们华人,这儿很多人天生怕
政府控制太多权力。

【在 a*****g 的大作中提到】
: common core 我一条一条研究了几十遍,没发现大的问题。
: (就发现了某一年的版本的某个章节的 copy paste的typo)
: common core 从开始的时候各州热情激昂,
: 到现在各州群情激愤鸡飞狗跳,
: 都是同一拨的人。
: 都说自己是为了孩子,搞各种扯皮,最后倒霉的是孩子是社会。
:
: With
: a
: from

G***W
发帖数: 1967
5
叶公好龙

50
had

【在 a*****g 的大作中提到】
: By Kate Zerniki
: BOSTON - It has been one of the most stubborn problems in education: With 50
: states, 50 standards and 50 tests, how could anyone really know what
: American students were learning, or how well?
: At a dinner with colleagues in 2009, Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts's
: commissioner of education, hatched what seemed like an obvious answer - a
: national test based on the Common Core standards that almost every state had
: recently adopted.
: Now Dr. Chester finds himself in the awkward position of walking away from
: the very test he helped create.

f**********n
发帖数: 29853
6
安安猪很好人,持之以恒地推动中国文化,对小孩教育很关心。往最低处说,他的围棋
教育其实降低了未来的犯罪率,为你我的小孩创造了一个更安全的环境。
你不要这样。:)

【在 G***W 的大作中提到】
: 叶公好龙
:
: 50
: had

G***W
发帖数: 1967
7
我哪样了?
铲除月光的时候,你怎么不出来说一句话?
月光的智商会比这个弄围棋的低? 月光不爱国?
搞笑什么?我很不喜欢和稀泥的中国文化。。。
有什么事情解决什么事情,社区要大家来维护。。。又不是我一个人的。
从你认识我倒现在,我用了多少马甲,每个马甲是不是都战功赫赫,月光对我来说只是
一个陌生人而已,拼图也是陌生人。。。

【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: 安安猪很好人,持之以恒地推动中国文化,对小孩教育很关心。往最低处说,他的围棋
: 教育其实降低了未来的犯罪率,为你我的小孩创造了一个更安全的环境。
: 你不要这样。:)

G***W
发帖数: 1967
8
我要承受世人骂我是精神病,月光骂我是疯子的精神压力。。你怎么不同情我一下,
现在版面繁荣了。。你来摘取胜利果实。。中国文化都是这样的吗?这是谁的credit..
你安安猪有这个平台给你传播你所谓的围棋,你给这个社区做了什么。。
我学历史,经济。。我在努力的学习中国文化还有美国文化,。。。
我在菌斑发帖,你到底懂多少华夏文化。。你居然敢直面来说我。完全是欠揍的主
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/Military/44908469.html

【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: 多谢了。
: 研究了一下,我们州也已经在去年放弃了。
: 读了几篇新闻,感觉是权力的集中化和地方化之争。不象我们华人,这儿很多人天生怕
: 政府控制太多权力。

f**********n
发帖数: 29853
9
:)

【在 G***W 的大作中提到】
: 我哪样了?
: 铲除月光的时候,你怎么不出来说一句话?
: 月光的智商会比这个弄围棋的低? 月光不爱国?
: 搞笑什么?我很不喜欢和稀泥的中国文化。。。
: 有什么事情解决什么事情,社区要大家来维护。。。又不是我一个人的。
: 从你认识我倒现在,我用了多少马甲,每个马甲是不是都战功赫赫,月光对我来说只是
: 一个陌生人而已,拼图也是陌生人。。。

G***W
发帖数: 1967
10
你拿一个地方的法律,加州华人abuse美国教育资源的个例,你要全美49个州的华人给
你们这些在加州做了中国似的成功的败类来买单。。
你太narrow minded了。。任何事情都是有因有果的。。不要悲愤。。。

【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: :)
f**********n
发帖数: 29853
11
:)你要不要问问月光,我是哪个州?

【在 G***W 的大作中提到】
: 你拿一个地方的法律,加州华人abuse美国教育资源的个例,你要全美49个州的华人给
: 你们这些在加州做了中国似的成功的败类来买单。。
: 你太narrow minded了。。任何事情都是有因有果的。。不要悲愤。。。

N*********6
发帖数: 2302
12
"月光认证,质量保证“,你这种无耻的舔法,我是很不以为然的,我不是已经专门开
贴说明这个事情了吗? 你知道你这句话在民主社会是多么傻X的论断吗?
日后在说了,我今天有点累,不想灌水了。。再见。。。
愚蠢的人是不知道自己愚蠢的,
我6岁的女儿都问我:妈妈:you don't know that you don't know到底是什么意思。
。目前好像她懂了一点,我用了多方面的简单说法。。。。用baby talk她好像是懂了
。。。

【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: :)你要不要问问月光,我是哪个州?
f**********n
发帖数: 29853
13
:)

【在 N*********6 的大作中提到】
: "月光认证,质量保证“,你这种无耻的舔法,我是很不以为然的,我不是已经专门开
: 贴说明这个事情了吗? 你知道你这句话在民主社会是多么傻X的论断吗?
: 日后在说了,我今天有点累,不想灌水了。。再见。。。
: 愚蠢的人是不知道自己愚蠢的,
: 我6岁的女儿都问我:妈妈:you don't know that you don't know到底是什么意思。
: 。目前好像她懂了一点,我用了多方面的简单说法。。。。用baby talk她好像是懂了
: 。。。

N*********6
发帖数: 2302
14
我嫉恶如仇,我是要为每一个我死去的马甲报仇的:
:)
别来摸我(BMW,我是看不上的,我喜欢兰博基尼)
意大利的车车,教父的风格。。

【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: :)
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