IMPORTANT – 11th Graders and their parents – Why my daughter will not be taking the CT State Mandated NEW SAT next week.
(The following is an expanded re-post of the article what appeared in the Washington Post, on Diane Ravitch’s blog and here at Wait, What?)
In an effort to win market share, the College Board, along with the standardized testing industry and the corporate education reform advocates are pushing states are mandate that high school juniors MUST take the SAT. Connecticut, Colorado, Michigan and New Hampshire are among the states throwing their students under the bus.
In Connecticut, thanks to a new “state mandate,” approximately 40,000 Connecticut high school juniors will not be attending their classes on March, 2, 2016. Instead they will be taking another “Common Core aligned” standardized test – this time the NEW SAT.
The attempt to force the state’s 11th graders to take the NEW SAT is not about helping students, improving graduating rates or expanding the number of people who go to college.
This new “mandate” is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is crippling public education in Connecticut and across the nation.
In this case, it is about trying to force children to take a test that will then be used to label those students and provide the state with faulty information to evaluate Connecticut’s teachers.
Parents should be aware of what is taking place and step up to ensure that our children areIMPORTANT - 11th Graders and their parents – Why my daughter will not be taking the CT State Mandated NEW SAT next week. - Wait What?: