Different Brands of CCSS Compliant Tests Fool Only Fools
Florida and many other states are pulling the same scams. Replacing Common Core State Standards compliant high stakes tests with CCSS compliant high stakes tests of another brand name is a blatant, in-your-face insult to parents, teachers, students and taxpayers.
Cars rebrand, bottled water rebrands, gasoline rebrands, etc. Therefore our elected and appointed legislators and highly placed school officials believe we are all too busy, too indifferent and/or too stupid to notice that what is being done to our children.
This rebranding, however, is not the same as product rebranding. Cars, gasoline, etc. are inanimate objects, mere things. Our children are our most precious and most vulnerable human beings.
Read the duplicitous double talk that Florida Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart delivers as her expert analysis of expensive, unnecessary, high pressure, high stakes tests that are in the process of being produced by the latest private corporation granted the privilege to reap insane amounts of profit from public education funds.
“‘We need to be sure we are teaching the standards and then
the assessment will take care of itself,’ Stewart added. ‘I’ve been preaching that sermon for years.’
the assessment will take care of itself,’ Stewart added. ‘I’ve been preaching that sermon for years.’
But the new tests are expected to be tougher, and the roll out of Common Core-aligned exams in other states, such as New York, lead to plummeting pass rates. The percentage of that state’s 4th-graders doing well in language arts tests, for example, fell from about 59 percent in 2012 to about 30 percent in 2013.”
Of course teachers and school administrators don’t yet know what to expect. After all, the entire thing is being made as you read this. What will the device be that determines what children will pass or fail, what teacher will be Different Brands of CCSS Compliant Tests Fool Only Fools | Reclaim Reform:
