Tag Archives: PARCC
Common Core Test ‘Refuseniks’
The resistance is coming from the political right and the political left. Those on the right are opposed to federal testing that measures emotional responses more than knowledge and infringes on privacy. The left often rejects accountability standards. So a grassroots movement of “opting out” is taking hold among the states.
Posted in Common Core, Education, News and Analysis, Uncategorized
Tagged Common Core Testing, Hechinger Report, PARCC, SBAC, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
Common Core: Teaching to the New Test – PART I
It took the sleeping giant a while to figure out what was going on with the Common Core (so-called) State Standards. Put together largely by a well-connected Washington, D.C., non-profit called Achieve, these education “standards” were attached to the Race-to-the-Top contest in 2009 for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds.
Posted in Common Core, Education
Tagged Amplify News Corp subsidiary, CCSS, City Journal, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, CRESST, Cultural Literacy, ED Hirsch, Edward Frenkel, Fed Ed, Hung-His-Wu, James Shuls, Joel Klein, Manhattan Institute, Obama Department of Education, PARCC, Race to the Top, Sol Stern, UCLA, Wall Street Journal
