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Monday, May 7, 2012

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Protesting Pearson's latest move on teacher licensing

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Protesting Pearson's latest move on teacher licensing:

Protesting Pearson's latest move on teacher licensing
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Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times


Barbara Madeloni, front right, who runs the high school teacher training program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with some of her students, who have refused to participate in a pilot program for a new licensing procedure being developed by the education company Pearson and Stanford University to be marketed to states nationwide.


Education students are refusing to send Pearson two 10-minute videos of themselves teaching, as well as a 40-page take-home test, requirements of an assessment that will soon be necessary for licensure in several states.