Stop ignoring the voices of teachers and educational researchers in making significant decisions affecting the classroom.
Why is this important?
Common Core initiatives and high-stakes standardized testing are about control and not quality education. Students' academic success should not be tied to a test score to determine their ability to learn, and teachers' pedagogy should not be tied to a test score to determine their ability to teach: Education (and the process of obtaining it) is much more than a single grade.
