Sunday, March 16, 2014

Geaux Teacher!: More White Lies from Louisiana

Geaux Teacher!: More White Lies from Louisiana:



More White Lies from Louisiana



My letter to all members of the Louisiana House and Senate Education Committees:

Ladies and Gentlemen of House and Senate Education: 

When legislation regarding PARCC assessments are presented before your committees, this information will be useful to prevent John White from pulling the wool over your eyes. I hope you question him about these misrepresentations published daily by Superintendent White. 

 Posted below you will see one of the Daily Sample Test Questions that John White emails to subscribers.  

Misrepresentation #1: White refers to PARCC Common Core Assessments as "Louisiana's new assessments." Nowhere do you see the words Common Core or PARCC.  

Fact:  these are sample test questions found on the PARCC website. Here is the sample test question as John White publishes it:


Here is the same sample test question found on the PARCC website:


Misrepresentation #2:  White attributes these "new assessments" and then,  by association,  these sample test items to