Saturday, June 7, 2014

Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand. | Reclaim Reform

Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand. | Reclaim Reform:



Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand.

The multiple brand names for water and high stakes standardized tests are misleading – to say the least.
Branded water and tests
Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand.
Too many politicians are scamming us and our children when they simply shift public education tax money from one brand of high stakes testing to another. Who gets the new billion dollar contracts? Obviously, the corporations who contribute to the re-election campaigns of the officials who grant the funds. Same old, same old – new name. It is still the insane testing craze with an arbitrarily and politically created cut-off point (failure level) for political power and private profit.
It’s called re-branding.This is no cause to celebrate.
Zephyhills Spring Water doesn’t come from Zephyrhills or a spring even though the front label says, “100% Natural Spring Water.” Nestle’s Global is perhaps the largest private, water bottling corporation in the world. Lobbyists have financed American legislation to legalize this. Tap water is simply branded for profit – immense profit. See the * info below for more. Read the Tampa Bay Times investigative article HERE. For lists of water brands, readHERE.
Pearson, CTB/McGrawhIll, Education Testing Services (ETS), Riverside Publishing and its Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand. | Reclaim Reform: