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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – March, 2014 | Live Long and Prosper

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – March, 2014

Here are some graphic images from around the net — plus my own 2 cents worth of comments. Click on any image to see the full sized version.
What CCSS Really Means
The Common Core State Standards – Standards we didn’t need, which require that billions of tax dollars are spent on replacements for tests which are misused, in order to give those dollars to test-prep and test publishers who (along with billionaires who don’t know anything about education) donate money to politicians (who also don’t know anything about education) who then pass laws about education, including the adoption of new standards.
U.S. is [not] #1
U.S. Students from low-poverty schools score very high on international tests. Nearly one-fourth of our children live in poverty.
The problem is not “failing schools” or “bad teachers.” The problem is that in our society the children of the poor are not valued. We’re one of only three OECD nations who spend less money on our students in poverty. The “education