A critical warning for all parents and students, from Stan Karp of the Education Law Center: "There were more than 100,000 ninth-graders in New Jersey public schools this past year, and they all had one thing in common: None of them knows what they have to do to graduate... New and harder tests are on the way, and the bar for a high school diploma is about to become a moving target…. If New Jersey adopts PARCC’s “college and career ready” score as the threshold for high school graduation, thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands, of students will not get a diploma, even if they pass all their courses and meet all other requirements. If the State adopts some other score on the PARCC tests as the graduation requirement, it will need to explain why, and what the basis for that standard is. With more than 100,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 24 out of school and out of work, fewer graduates and more dropouts are the last things New Jersey needs. But the transition to new exams also offers an opportunity to sever the unreliable link between high stakes tests and high school diplomas and to adopt more effective and more equitable assessment policies."
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:16:34 +0000
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