Education Reform – Testing kids on content they’ve never learned - Wait What?

Education Reform – Testing kids on content they’ve never learned - Wait What?:

Education Reform – Testing kids on content they’ve never learned

A primary goal of the Corporate Education Reform Industry is to privatize public education by persuading policymakers that the nation’s system of public education is failing.

A key strategy of choice for the so-called reformers and their political lackeys is to prove that students and teachers are failing by requiring massive amounts of standardized testing the measures students on concepts and content that haven’t learned.

Take for example, the NEW SAT, which Connecticut has now mandated for use in the 11^thgrade.

[Read Once again Connecticut elected officials are wrong to mandate the SAT for all 11th graders (Wait, What? 11-2-15) which includes education advocate Wendy Lecker’s recent commentary piece on the NEW SAT.]

A New York Times article last week entitled, Everything You Need to Know About the New SAT, laid out the facts about the NEW SAT including the news that,

“The addition of more-advanced math, such as trigonometry, means the test will cover materials from a greater number of courses.  That will make it 

Education Reform – Testing kids on content they’ve never learned - Wait What?: