And we are told that these tests benefit both the children and teachers...REFUSE!!! I’D like to tell you what was wrong with the tests my students took last week, but I can’t. Pearson’s $32 million contract with New York State to design the exams prohibits the state from making the tests public and imposes a gag order on educators who administer them. So teachers watched hundreds of thousands of children in grades 3 to 8 sit for between 70 and 180 minutes per day for three days taking a state English Language Arts exam that does a poor job of testing reading comprehension, and yet we’re not allowed to point out what the problems were. nytimes/2014/04/10/opinion/the-problem-with-the-common-core.html?_r=1&referrer
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:06:41 +0000