Pennsylvania Wants YOU to Give Standardized Tests to Your Kids at Home
A multi-million dollar corporation wants to make sure Pennsylvania’s children keep getting standardized tests.
Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) and the state Department of Education are providing the Classroom Diagnostic Tools (CDT) assessments for use in students’ homes.
Finally, parents can give multiple choice standardized tests to their own children on-line.
Which is kind of hilarious because no one really asked for that.
In fact, many parents, teachers and students breathed a sigh of relief when the requirement that students take high stakes assessments was waived this year nationwide.
With the Coronavirus pandemic closing most school buildings and students transitioning to on-line classes created from scratch by their teachers, there hasn’t been much time for anything else.
But the folks at DRC, a division of CTB McGraw-Hill, have been busy, too.
The Minnesota-based corporation sent out an email written by Matthew Stem, Deputy Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education at the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to district contacts from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia CONTINUE READING: Pennsylvania Wants YOU to Give Standardized Tests to Your Kids at Home | gadflyonthewallblog