Tom Liam Lynch :: New Literacies, New Literatures » state standards http://tomliamlynch.org On literacy and technology and education Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 State Standards on the Hot Seat http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/10/30/state-standards-on-the-hot-seat/ http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/10/30/state-standards-on-the-hot-seat/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:44:53 +0000 tomliamlynch http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/10/30/state-standards-on-the-hot-seat/
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    • ]]>     Teachers have known this for sometime: state standards have been eased in the wake of NCLB to give the illusion of raised test scores.  The New York Times article lays it out, including this excerpt relating to New York teachers:
    Some states raised standards in one subject but lowered them in another, including New York, which raised the rigor of its fourth-grade-math standard but lowered the standard in eighth-grade reading, the study said.

    It merits raising a broader question, too.  Not just the controversy of how some states played with testing standards, but the problem of using these kinds of tests to compare students at all. 

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