STOP COMMON CORE TESTING
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Apr 12th, 2014Someone from North Haven, CT signed.
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Apr 12th, 2014Someone from Boca Raton, FL writes:
Tired of seeing my students as guinea pigs and myself and my colleagues as the scapegoat. Read up on Developmental Psychologist Jean Piaget. he would be rolling over in his grave to see how Common Core Chaos negates his world-renowned theory of cognitive development in children. This is an embarrassment to out country.Apr 12th, 2014Someone from Derwood, MD writes:
"Ranking teachers by their VAM scores can have unintended consequences that reduce quality.? The ASA points out: ?This is not saying that teachers have little effect on students, but that variation among teachers accounts for a small part of the variation in scores. The majority of the variation in test scores is attributable to factors outside of the teacher?s control such as student and family background, poverty, curriculum, and unmeasured influences.?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 12th, 2014Someone from Waynesboro, PA writes:
I had such hope that President Obama would understand what NCLB had inflicted on public education. Instead he doubled down with Race To The Top "grants" to states who desperately needed funds during the Recession. RTTT has now become the "tar baby" that these states cannot escape. It's up to we, the people, to make our voices heard.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 12th, 2014Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
Stop Ed Tech monopolists. Dismantle Common Core.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 12th, 2014Someone from Plainview, NY writes:
Not only are these tests developmentally inappropriate, they are NOT research based. Common Core and its evaluations have NOT been proven to increase learning on any level. In NY we are still evaluating teachers based on test scores when we have discounted those same tests for the students taking them. This is totally unfair. Common Core and its ilk are shills for private companies like Pearson who want to make profits off the backs of children and dismantle public education in favor of private schools, such as charters. We are educators as well as taxpayers and will not stand by quietly to see our education system sold down the river.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 12th, 2014Someone from Hamilton, OH writes:
These tests are inappropriate and misguided. You have ruined the lives and careers if excellent teachers. You have harmed children by expecting the impossible. You have played into the hands of greedy for-profit non-educators who take public money and bank it for personal gain. This is wrong. I voted for you and against the lies of the right wing. Why are you pushing this onto our schools?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 12th, 2014Someone from Tampa, FL writes:
The Common [sic] Core [sic] State [sic] Standards [sic] for ELA are unimaginative, hackneyed, pedestrian, amateurish, and grossly distorting of curricular materials and of pedagogical techniques. The assessments based on them are even worse. Stop the madness. Stop this takeover of our schools by an unelected, distant, centralized, regimenting, totalitarian authority. ?I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture" ?? Albert Einstein, Saturday Evening Post interview, 10/26/1929REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 12th, 2014Someone from Wynnewood, PA writes:
Will they hear us? Will they believe us? Will they do something about this? The majority opinion doesn't seem to have a voice in policy anymore. We MUST elect representatives that are willing to stand up for us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 12th, 2014Someone from Pomona, CA writes:
Common Core is a scam designed to strip money from public schools and enrich large companies such as Pearson. The tests are slop, and don't measure anything useful. The real cost is joy and intellectual engagement have been stripped from learning. Stop the madness now.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 12th, 2014Someone from North Haven, CT signed.
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Apr 12th, 2014Someone from Covington, LA writes:
I wasted this past WEEK administering useless, invalid tests to children who will never see their "scored" test, who were forced to sign an oath to "never discuss the test with anyone at anytime." This is insanity. Expensive, greed- driven insanity. Stop Common Core and its related testing. Put the money spent on this SIN into more counselors, nurses, paras, lower class sizes, and a daily bag dinner to be sent home with kids on free lunch who, we know, will not eat again until they are at school. We could do all this and still have money left over.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 12th, 2014Someone from Homer, LA writes:
Children will excel when the classroom becomes a joyful experience. Years ago our school board selected Direct Instruction (costly continuous training for faculty promoted by high pressure salesmen) over Balanced Literacy (promoted by current teachers with zero additional costs). The results were disastrous. Balanced Literacy was an energy filled classroom which developed critical thinking skills in a stimulating environment. Students enjoyed learning, which is the basis for improving test scores. I pray we will get the "for profit" companies out of the education business before it is too late.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 12th, 2014Someone from Glendale, AZ writes:
Common Core testing is just another way to undermine public schools. Our low-income schools are separate but not equal to high income schools.REPORT COMMENTS
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