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In reply to the discussion: Obama needs to call Arne Duncan out for his new tactics for special education students. [View all]AnotherMother4Peace
(4,247 posts)ranking of achievement. Your statement: "I am not seeing any evidence that this testing will be the deciding factor on whether a disabled student graduates or advances a grade." Currently all students including children with IEP's advance automatically regardless of testing outcome. I doubt that this aspect of "high stakes" testing will change.
Your statement: "Regarding Common Core, there is little evidence that the CC curriculum is any better or worse than the existing curriculum when it comes to teaching a disabled student." Are you at all familiar with what the curriculum for a medically fragile, low functioning student should be? How about a child that may some day be able to live independently? What do you suspect that child's needs are? What and how should that student be learning to make his/her future the best it can be for him/her and their family?