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From: Justin Escher Alpert <[email protected]>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:54 AM Subject: PARCC Reports
Dear Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers:
Congratulations on the PARCC test reports finally coming out. It will be great for thekids to come back from the holidays to work on where they fell short last spring. Thanksfor bringing it back up. Without your efforts, it would be very hard to compare ourchildren to those in Washington D.C. or New Orleans... that is... unless we had themeans to actually visit and take in the Culture.
One point for your consideration, please: That the reports were going tobe IN COLOR was a major selling point of the PARCC Exam. Take a look at theattached sample report. The colors are dull and faded. It is almost like we cheaped
out on ink. As long as we are reducing our children to two-dimensional depictions,couldn't we use more vivid colors, if only to evoke the rich full spectrum of possibilitythat Life has to offer?
Thank you for your continued interest in the few PARCC states remaining. Perhaps wemight compare our lowest-performing schools and work together to fix the underlyingsocio-economic problems exposed by standardized testing. The remnants of thePARCC structure would be a wonderful scaffolding to reverse the flow of informationand effect innovation at the grass roots level. Besides, just by sampling the lowest-performing schools, we could extrapolate the issues nation-wide and empower furtherresponsible and accountable local Control. You know, upon reflection, maybe we could
cut back on the amount of testing and just do a statistical sampling. Nobody everneeded a road map where one inch equals one inch. You'd spend all of your timecartographing, lost in the details, and sort of miss out on the real-world beauty andadventure of the travel and interactions with People. Just saying.
That's all. Well that, and your science is fundamentally flawed. If you would like, I couldput together a team to show you how to use data more effectively. There is seemingly aconflict-of-interest bias that affects your results. Maybe in the beginning of April youcould submit your findings for peer review. A continuing conversation.
Anyway, happy holidays to you and your whole PARCC team. There is no reason why
with critical thinking and rigor, we can't raise the nature and quality of your work up toour standards of excellence in the New Year.
Very truly yours,
Justin Escher AlpertLivingston, New Jersey
