standardized testing

AMAIRIKUHN EDGYKAYSHUN AND COMMON CORE: IT’S ALL ABOUT PROFITS ...

5/5 (2) I hear alot from teachers and their concerns about Common Core and its "individually adaptive computerized standardized assessment process," which for me (and many others) has always been the central issue about the "program".…
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NEW YORK TEACHER: MORE MORE MORE TECHNOLOGY, BUT LESS REAL EDUCATION

Well, it's time for another of my periodic rants about the deplorable state of Amairikuhn edgykayshun and the corporate hacks and billionaire busybodies that want to ruin it even more. During a recent vidchat, one member…
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The Education Cure

Education is in dire straits, mainly not because of poor teachers and principals but because the privatization movement and the profit motive has infested education’s inner sanctums with greed and an ideology which justifies it. The result is actually poorer education due to higher cost, lack of coordination, politics, commitment to profit rather than a good education, and too often amateurs guiding it.