I posted the whole document these pictures were in two posts ago, but upon reviewing the DOE’s five-year goals for growth in the Smarter Balanced Assesssment, I noticed the one group that is going to be driven hard to improve proficiency on the Smarter Balanced Assessment. Students With Disabilities. Dammit Jack, what the hell is wrong with you? You have NO idea what these kids are going through every single day. My guess is this is something you do not deal with or experience on a daily basis. I really think you may be insane. This isn’t right, and every single parent of a child with disabilities needs to email their legislator and ask them to impeach Delaware Governor Jack Markell based on an inability to perform his job functions.
Below are the growth targets for the next five years for the Smarter Balanced Assessment. They expect students with disabilities to jump up astronomically in the next five years which means the DOE will push teachers to push these students. Enough is enough.
Welcome to the Jack Markell world of Rigor and Grit for students with disabilities. This is not education. This is insanity. This is not aggressive, this is you just not getting it…
UPDATED: An earlier version of this article had an employee at the DOE named in it. I talked with this employee when I left the State Board of Education, and I understand she was just doing her job. She answers to her boss, and I totally get that. This is why I have changed this to her boss.
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I absolutely hate when they break students up into groups like this and label them! What the heck are they going to do to meet their targets, stop teaching to Asians in the classroom because they have a higher proficiency rate and start drilling the other groups intensively to get them up to speed? That’s just insane. Why separate groups out, it only shows that their are other factors that play a role in “proficiency”. And really who the hell cares? So your child does or doesn’t master this test, it means nothing in the real world.
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How were these targets created? These probably align with Rodel and the 2025 pipe dream.
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For students with disabilities, I think Jack Markell looked at the figures and said “Hmmm, let’s just triple it.”
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