Sentences with phrase «citizen test prep»

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More importantly, we have also developed to a large degree the capacity to refuse the pressures of a test - prep curriculum, weighing the outcomes of those pressures against the many aims of education that also compel us as professional educators and as citizens.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.