To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Stop Inappropriate Testing in Our Public Schools!
Why is Pearson forcing teachers to sign gag orders and removing this analytical expose of how the PARCC test uses texts that are far above grade level and questions that do not represent the Common Core State Standards? https://celiaoyler.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/the-parcc-test-exposed/.
Our children's educations are at stake---tell everyone this election year that we will NOT stand for secret, inappropriate demands being placed on our children while corporations profit off of orchestrated school failure!
Our children's educations are at stake---tell everyone this election year that we will NOT stand for secret, inappropriate demands being placed on our children while corporations profit off of orchestrated school failure!
Why is this important?
Most Americans are affected by K-12 Ed policies either as parents, students, teachers, administrators, or teacher educators. We now have evidence that testing companies (Pearson and PARCC) have been rigging tests to fail our children. The children, teachers, and parents of America desperately need and demand transparency for the big testing companies that are controlling K-12 education and failing our schools! It is one thing to hold teachers and schools accountable, but the measuring tool matters as much as the measurement. There are no excuses for tests that are not aligned to the standards they claim to be assessing.