Posted on 01/28/2015 6:39:32 AM PST by george76
This is National School Choice Week, but I want to talk about parents’ school testing choice. Moms and dads, you have the inherent right and responsibility to protect your children. You can choose to refuse the top-down Common Core racket of costly standardized tests of dubious academic value, reliability and validity.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
I’m reminding you of your right to choose because the spring season of testing tyranny is about to hit the fan. Do you object to the time being taken away from your kids’ classroom learning? Are you alarmed by the intrusive data-sharing and data-mining enabled by assessment-driven special interests? Are you opposed to the usurpation of local control by corporate testing giants and federal lobbyists?
You are not alone, although the testing racketeers are doing everything they can to marginalize you.
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As more families, administrators and teachers realized the classroom and cost burdens the guinea-pig field-testing scheme would impose, they pressured their states to withdraw. Between 2011 and 2014, the number of states actively signed up for PARCC dropped from 24 (plus the District of Columbia) to 10 (plus D.C.). Education researcher Mercedes Schneider reports that the remaining 10 are Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio and Rhode Island.
State legislators and state education boards in Utah, Kansas, Alaska, Iowa, South Carolina and Alabama have withdrawn from the other federally funded testing consortium, the $180-million tax-subsidized Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which administered field tests last spring to three million students in 23 states.
In New Jersey, the parental opt-out movement is “exploding,”
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Be prepared to push back against threats and ostracism. Find strength in numbers. And always remember: You are your kids’ primary educational providers.
(Excerpt) Read more at radixnews.com ...
Common Core was not properly validated and cannot be properly validated because it is so deficient compared to the standards of high-performing countries that congruence cannot be established.
http://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/common-core-english-and-math-standards-not-properly-validated/
Take the online practice tests. They are brutal. The third grade teat was enough to make me sick for these kids.
Do you happen to have a link for these online tests handy?
Maybe these tests are designed to set the kids up for failure. That way our children can be convinced they aren’t smart enough to take care of themselves and, when they turn 18, they can vote Democrat so they can have the Benevolent Government take care of them.
In the past few days, some aspiring politicians have insisted that the curriculum is set by local school boards and education officials within the states and local schools. A little research reveals a quite different story.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/08/college_board_erases_the_founding_fathers_protect_the_spirit_of_76.html http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/10/hellbent_on_rewriting_americas_past.html#ixzz3FgxjGjQi
In the nav bar across the top is a drop down labeled “Prep,” choose “Practice Tests.” Scroll down and choose either English or math, each in its own green bar. I chose English. On this new page, scroll down until you see the grade levels labeling their own gray band. Click on the grade and the band turns into a drop down menu. Choose “computer-based practice test.”
Thank you so much -
My adult children and grandchildren are subjected to this nonsense. They need this information!
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