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Occupy your classroom

by Chad Sansing

DSC05584 by Berkeley Unified School District

Michelle McNeil, reporting on ESEA Flexibility, September 28th, 2011:

To be freed from [NCLB's 100% proficiency] 2014 deadline, and to have more flexibility in using Title I money, states will have to agree to do three main things. They will have to adopt college- and career-ready standards and tie state tests to them….

Arne Duncan speaking at the Education Sector Forum, September 30th, 2011:

“Paper-and-pencil licensure tests for teachers are not rigorous, meaningful, or useful….”

There exists a naked ambition amongst the networked and privileged #edreformers to measure learning by test