Reply #31: When I was a teacher, we DID separate the scores of SE kids. [View All]

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Which caused its own problems, in that the school created a lot of pressure to diagnose the kids we thought would be low-scoring as "special ed" so we could pull those kids' tests and thereby inflate our scores!

Test scores, anyway, and IMHO, are very often totally meaningless. Who's checking the validity of the tests? What are they really measuring? I know in my city, the test scores are an almost perfect inverse relationship to the number of free lunch kids. When test scores improve, who's making sure the tests aren't getting easier? There are so many problems with the way we test, I can't even begin.

Who even remembers that in 1995 they added 100 points to every SAT score? So that a 500 in 1990 is equivalent to a 600 in 2005? No one. Does it even matter? Not really. The whole infrastructure is an enormous waste of energy.