Testing Crashes in Indiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Minnesota – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:
by John Thompson
A study by Elaine Weiss and Don Long of the Bolder Broader Approach shows that the corporate school “reform” experiment has claimed to have raised student achievement but that those gains evaporate upon close examination. A previous post, “The Benefits (and Costs) of ‘Reform’ in Three Cities,” discussed their “Market-Oriented Education Reforms’ Rhetoric Trumps Reality,” [...]
by Jim Horn
If Common Core Corporate Standards are to survive and thus fulfill their function as defining what is thinkable and unthinkable in school, then more tests, many more tests, will be required to assure everyone is keeping his thoughts inside the bubbles. I am gratified to see the system already breaking down before it can even be fully envisioned by the mercenary educationists, IT drones, and economists who the oligarchs have hired to make it happen. Could someone, perhaps Anonymously, be helping to bring down this racist and classist system of social, economic, and epistemological sorting?
Below is a piece from Common Dreams published some time back (could be relevant):
Published on Sunday, February 5, 2012 by Common Dreams
Wild Dreams: Anonymous, Arne Duncan, and High-Stakes Testing
Last night I was re-reading a terrific little book from 1976 by Don Martin, George Overholt, and Wayne Urban: Accountability in American Education: A Critique. The book brings so many elements of the current edu-mess into focus, while giving a long view of history. What is evident in re-reading this book is that the threats to democracy that the authors feared in 1976 from the encroaching accountability
