Sentences with phrase «core testing madness»
The powers that be need to stop the Common Core testing madness before they do even more damage to our children, our teachers and our public education system.
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Rather than provide the necessary resources, fight the new Common Core Testing madness and repeal the damaging impact of his corporate education reform industry plan, Malloy is pulling out the state's credit card and ordering «computers, tablets and other electronic devices in order to meet the requirements of Common Core.»
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on Malloy and Pryor's «Mandatory» March Madness: The Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test
In this commentary piece she lays out why the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC) testing system fails to provide accurate and useable information about student performance, why it should not be used as part of an effective teacher evaluation system and why Connecticut's elected officials should defund the SBAC testing madness and use those funds to help address Connecticut's budget crisis.
Although Malloy and the Department of Education spent nearly two years lying and misleading Connecticut parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC testing madness, nearly half of the students in Sherman's school were opted out of the SBAC testing last spring, making it the elementary school with the highest opt out rates in the state and among Connecticut's 25 top schools when it came to the percent of students being opted out.
Considering that the Common Core SBAC test is calibrated to ensure the vast majority of Connecticut students fail, parents should seriously consider protecting their children by opting them out of this incredibly unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory testing madness.
The CEA press release apparently makes no mention of what, if anything, the American Federation of Teachers — Connecticut Chapter is doing to stop the students, parents and teachers by fighting the Common Core SBAC testing madness.