Saying “No” to Transnational corporate Pearson and their privatized testing scams: Parents and children rally against Pearson | Dailycensored.com

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Saying “No” to Transnational corporate Pearson and their privatized testing scams: Parents and children rally against Pearson

by Danny Weil

Picture of Iris Culver, an 11-year-old fifth-grader, wearing a pineapple costume she made with her friend, Asha Karmen-Chan, 10, who stands to her right. The students were protesting standardized testing outside Pearson’s Midtown office on June 7th, 2012.  The parents and children who attended the rally came from some of the 61 elementary and middle schools where anti-testing activists said families were boycotting “field tests” from Pearson, which began on Tuesday.

Pearson PlC is one of the largest text book and educational services corporations in the world.  It is British owned and is now busy designing inauthentic tests for students in NY and elsewhere, while posting very authentic profits.  This is due to the fact that state capitalism allows public monies to subsidize their business plans.  and it is all wrapped up in what is supposed to be a bed of roses.  Parents obviously didn’t think so for 

BAMN: Catherine Ferguson Academy School in Detroit still struggling school closure

by Danny Weil

  If you have not heard of the Catherine Ferguson Academy School in Detroit, the attempt to close the school and the fight to keep it open which is now winning you should. I have written much about the issue at Daily Censored and you can  simply use our search engine and type in the name [...]