Comments on both PARCC and SBAC Assessments
Comments are now pouring in on both tests. Here are comments from the PARCC assessment in NY state and the SBAC here in Seattle. One from The Answer Sheet at the Washington Post stands out: An elementary principal of a well-regarded elementary school in an affluent, “gold-coast” district wrote the following: These three days of ELA have been torture – I had only 23 students opt out and I had at least 3 times that number in tears. If we were permitted to talk about the content, it would be over so fast. Folks would be horrified at the vocabulary, the reading levels and the ambiguity of the questions. I was unable to answer at least 25 percent of them.