Sentences with phrase «core testing factories»

Both NCLB and RttT institutionalized the destructive corporate education reform policies that are turning our public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories dedicated to «test prep» around a narrow curriculum, rather than a broad - based, comprehensive education the ensures every child is provided with the knowledge and skills they will need to live more fulfilling lives,

The charter school industry and its corporate education reform allies are seeking to privatize public education and turn our schools into little more than Common Core testing factories and profit centers.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

In addition, they pontificate that students learn best when schools are mandated to use the ill - conceived Common Core standards so classrooms become little more than Common Core testing factories and the teaching profession is opened up to those who haven't been burdened by lengthy college based education programs designed to provide educators with the comprehensive skill sets necessary to work with and teach the broad range of children who attend the country's public schools.

Greed, stupidity, ignorance, and even more greed are behind the historic effort to denigrate teachers, turn our schools into little more than Common Core Testing factories, and destroy the concept of a true and comprehensive public education system.

Not satisfied with turning public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories, those who would profit from the so - called «personalized learning» approach, and those who support their absurd initiative are now pushing to bring this concept to Connecticut's schools.

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Turning our nation's schools into factories for Common Core test prep is beneficial to those making money on creating the tests and to those who can call themselves bold reformers by demanding «rigor» and «higher standards,» but to the real students in our classrooms these are hollow and empty words.

Then later, as the Deputy Commissioner of Education was announcing that the «roundtable» meeting was over, a parent diplomatically and respectfully stood up, thanked the Department for its presentation and began to explain why parents were understandably concerned about the Common Core SBAC and NEW SAT testing and our accurate concern that that our public schools are being turned into little more than testing factories.

And thanks to Malloy and Pryor, the Common Core freight train and the inappropriate Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment testing scheme will end up costing Connecticut taxpayers tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of dollars... while turning Connecticut's public schools into nothing more than testing factories.

Since Karp's assessment in 2011, we've seen the rise of the Common Core and its associated Common Core testing scheme, a system that is turning classrooms into little more than testing factories and profit centers for the testing industry.