TS Golds creators describe the testing vehicle as an early childhood assessment system that purportedly measures the whole child. What that means is that the tests are not only for literacy, mathematics, science and technology, social studies and the arts, but also for developmental domains including social emotional, physical, language and cognitive development. Aligned to the federal Common Core standards, which were designed and copyrighted by a small cadre of Beltway educrats, TS Gold received $30 million in federal Race to the Top subsidies in 2012.The assessors have 38 objectives arranged under nine topics of academic learning, psychomotor data and social-emotional development. Students are rated and recorded on their ability to do things like respond to emotional cues, interact cooperatively and cooperate and share ideas and materials in socially acceptable ways. TS Gold directs teachers to document student behaviors with videos, audio files, journals and photos -- which are then uploaded to a central database cloud ... The ultimate goal is not improved school performance. The real end is massive student data-mining for meddling and profit. The Obama administration sabotaged federal student and family privacy protections through backroom regulation, allowing once-protected student data to be sold to private vendors for the creation of what one Colorado bureaucrat calls human capital pipelines. ...Accompanying Common Core and national testing, and undergirding their influence, is a thickening network of student databases, largely pushed on states by the federal government. ...The data follows these children from preschool all the way through college and the workforce.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:37:12 +0000
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