Sentences with phrase «common cores testing frenzy»

The Common Core and Common Cores testing frenzy is undermining public education in Connecticut and across the country.

Another school is reporting that as result of the Common Core testing frenzy, business and graphic art students have been prohibited from using their classroom computers for more than a month during the spring Common Core testing period.

With the Common Core testing frenzy about to begin in public schools across Connecticut [SBAC testing takes place between March 15 — June 10, 2016], parents are once again reporting that some school districts are informing them that if their child is opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests they will be required to stay in the testing room and «sit and stare» during the entire testing period.

While much of the attention related to education reform has focused on charter schools, the Common Core and the Common Core testing frenzy, Internet based, online virtual charter schools have become a significant part of the corporate education reform industry.

Like tens of thousands of parents are doing in New York State, opt your children out of the Common Core testing frenzy.

CT Regional School District # 7 succumbs to Common Core testing frenzy, throws their children under the bus.

Retired Connecticut educator and fellow public education advocate Joseph Ricciotti recently had a strong piece in CT Newsjunke about Massachusetts» decision to shift away from the Common Core testing frenzy and whether Connecticut would follow their lead.

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Don't let them fool you: You can and should consider opting your child out of standardized testing frenzy (A powerful commentary piece by Wendy Lecker on the rights of parents when it comes to the Connecticut Mastery Test and the new Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test).

When it comes to the implementation of the Common Core and its related Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC) testing frenzy, the tide is beginning to turn.

In fact, implementation of the Common Core state standards and the associated tests is about to usher in a feeding frenzy in the «education marketplace.»

Every Connecticut school administrator is well aware, or should be well aware, that in January 2013 Governor Dannel Malloy's first Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, provided local school officials with a directive explaining how to mislead parents about the Common Core testing and how to make it as difficult as possible for parents to opt their child out of the testing frenzy.

A growing number of parents (and educators) understand that the Common Core standardized testing frenzy is bad for students, teachers and public schools.

Examine CABE's 2015 Legislative Priorities and you won't find a single word of opposition to the testing frenzy that is undermining public education or any comment whatsoever that it is absolutely wrong that the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test is rigged to ensure that up to 70 percent of our children are deemed failures.

IMPORTANT: The Common Core SBAC Testing Frenzy begins this coming week and goes for the next two months!