Very Important Warning for Connecticut High School Juniors and their parents
Last spring Governor Dannel Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly passed legislation mandating that the 40,000+ high school juniors who attend Connecticut’s public schools must take the NEW SAT – Tomorrow – March 2, 2016, despite the fact that the NEW SAT has not been publicly released, has not been statistically validated and includes a significant number of questions that are related to content that most high school juniors have not been taught.
Like the Common Core SBAC testing scheme that is being inflicted upon children in grades 3-8, the NEW SAT has been “aligned to the Common Core” and is intentionally designed to fail a large number of students.
After considering the issues involved I have opted my daughter out of the NEW SAT and she will be using tomorrow to learn rather than serve as a guinea pig for the testing industry and the Connecticut State Department of Education.
One thing is extremely clear.
The attempt to force Connecticut’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.
Instead, the new “mandate” is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is successfully diverting scarce public funds away from teacher-student instruction to private companies.
The College Board, the conglomerate that owns the SAT, collects nearly $1 Billion a year Very Important Warning for Connecticut High School Juniors and their parents - Wait What?:
