Back in December, Governor Markell and Secretary of Education Dr. Steven Godowsky announced the Smarter Balanced Assessment was going away for high school juniors. Because the College Board aligned the SAT with Common Core, why take both tests? Today is the annual SAT day for the juniors. The state pays for all of them to take the test. I am very curious how the scores will be this year with the realignment. I haven’t heard a peep about any parent wanting to opt their kid out of the SAT. Or as I like to call it, Smarter Balanced Junior.
I actually heard one district gave all the 9th and 10th graders off tomorrow. Did others do this as well and why? Does the testing environment have to be in the right alignment as well for the juniors? And why not give the seniors off as well? Only in Delaware! We are a state that is obsessed from the top down with testing. We can’t escape from it because our Governor, legislators, and the DOE believe it is essential. But our hubris comes at a price. We don’t look at the quality, only the results.
The Season Of Myths 