TALLAHASSEE—Florida is approaching a rough patch in its path to education reform, as the state prepares to release students’ scores on exams aligned to higher academic standards.
In other states where public schools have begun testing using the Common Core standards, students’ double-digit drops in performance jump-started countermovements in which parents and teachers rejected the new curriculum guidelines and protested the use of test scores for “high stakes” decisions like student promotion and teacher employment.
It was already going to be a challenge for education officials to explain to parents why their children’s performance has suffered, assuming Florida’s experience mirrors that of other states and scores plummet with the transition to new standards.
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