"I am a special education teacher who teaches the severely emotionally challenged . Due to their disabilities, many students have a very difficult time with standardized tests and will either just give up or become extremely agitated when they encounter a question they do not know. One of my students two years ago encountered one of these questions and tore his test up into very small pieces.

"With the implementation of NCLB, however, his scores had to be counted and without an alternative measure of achievement, his ability to learn will not be correctly measured."

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