North Carolina has chosen top-10 expectations for students and last-place effort from policymakers. Is it fair to expect significantly more of NC’s public school children than of state budget writers? North Carolina gives its students the 8th highest bar for proficiency standards in the nation… …yet the NC General Assembly ranks last (50th) in PK-12... Continue Reading →
Every NC parent must know this about end of year tests: Bursting the Bubble Sheet Part 4
Your kids are doing better than their end of year test allows them to be labeled. Both you and your kid need to know this. The deck is stacked against students in demonstrating their success because nearly all standardized educational testing is built around a curve designed to knock kids down rather than lift them... Continue Reading →