More Gates-Funded Nonsense Becomes Official
I was going to try to write something about how the testing/industrial complex has created a bizarre, incestuous, many-headed Hydra, and how the market is responding favorably, but I see that Susan Ohanian has already covered this particular development in spectacular detail.
In short, the Gates-funded National Governors' Association just determined through Gates-funded analysis at the Gates + GE-funded Student Achievement Partners, that the weird text-complexity formula used by Accelerated Reader is not only the bomb but totally valid and scientificky.
In case you are not aware, in schools, more and more, reading teachers are either coerced directly or indirectly
In short, the Gates-funded National Governors' Association just determined through Gates-funded analysis at the Gates + GE-funded Student Achievement Partners, that the weird text-complexity formula used by Accelerated Reader is not only the bomb but totally valid and scientificky.
In case you are not aware, in schools, more and more, reading teachers are either coerced directly or indirectly