About 400 students in Niagara Falls, or about 13 percent, opted out of at least some part of the state
ELA tests this week, the School Board learned Thursday night.
Not exact matches
In the past two
weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized
tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8
ELA and math exams.
With the release last
week of half of the
test questions from the most recent round of New York State Common Core
ELA / Literacy and math
tests, we can now begin to see if the
tests are, as one New York principal insisted last spring, «confusing, developmentally inappropriate and not well aligned with the Common Core standards.»
The 185,000 - plus students who opted out of the state English Language Arts [
ELA]
test last
week did so because of more than three years of organizing by a genuinely grass - roots movement of public school parents.
The 2018 NYS
ELA test is less than 4
weeks away!
Last
week's 3rd - 8th grade
ELA testing was an epic — and avoidable — fail for the children of New York State.
Along with replacing paper - based
tests on English language arts / literacy (
ELA) and mathematics with the new computer - based California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP)
tests, California has created a new online reporting system that will provide permissioned users with partial, preliminary scores within three
weeks of students having completed the exam.
In the past two
weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized
tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8
ELA and math exams.
Long Island based media reported added that, «40 percent of all Long Island [grade] 3 - 8 students refused to take last
week's
ELA Common Core state
tests.»
We will then pick up the remaining
ELA testing the following
week and will get that information out to you as quickly as we can.