“The Michigan Merit Exam is outdated and
doesn’t reflect the curriculum that is being taught in classrooms
throughout the state, yet students and educators are unfairly being
evaluated based on MME scores,” MEA President Steve Cook said.
EAST LANSING, Mich., June 25, 2013 — This
week’s release of the Michigan Merit Exam results reinforces the need
for lawmakers to scrap the obsolete standardized test and instead fully
implement the Common Core State Standards, the president of the Michigan
Education Association said today.
The MME results showed a slight decline in student test scores this
year, yet a trend of improved scores over the last four years.
Proficiency scores in reading, writing, social studies, math and science
have swung back and forth each year, making the exam unpredictable and
unreliable.
“The Michigan Merit Exam is outdated and doesn’t reflect the
curriculum that is being taught in classrooms throughout the state, yet
students and educators are unfairly being evaluated based on MME
scores,” MEA President Steve Cook said. “It’s time for our state’s
leaders to get rid of the Michigan Merit Exam and implement the Common
Core State Standards.”
Michigan educators, administrators and policymakers began the process
of implementing the Common Core State Standards in 2009. States must
adopt the national standards in order to receive federal education
funds.
Despite the fact that educators have spent the better part of three
years preparing for its launch, the Legislature earlier this month
irresponsibly stripped funding for Common Core implementation.
Legislators left Lansing last Thursday to begin their summer vacations.
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