We bash Common Core and the SBAc test because we think they are severely flawed. That hasn't changed. However, to be fair, we want to present all views of the SBAc test results we can find. When we posted our article on the 2016/17 results someone got in touch and asked why the students weren't followed year-over-year. That is, 3rd grade becomes 4th grade becomes 5th grade, etc. Well, there is enough data to follow students for three (3) years so we went back and pulled that data. In the chart below we show the ELA and Math test scores for those who we have 3 years (the max) of data. When we look at this what do we see?   Following the students gives a different … [Read more...]