Fellow education blogger Diane Ravitch, the nation's premier public education advocate, opened the New York Times this morning and noted that even the New York Times has been «snowed» by the Corporate Education Reform
Industry and their
false narrative that the solution to the challenges facing public education in the United States is to have more standardized testing.
My elemental objective is to show how extensive time exclusively devoted to seeing where the accusation came from and whether it has any evidence to back it up reveals a disturbing pattern: Inconsistent
narratives that don't line up right; no hard evidence is ever presented proving such skeptics are in an orchestrated arrangement where they are paid
industry money in exchange for fabricating
false science assessments; and an overall set of talking points which is ultimately traceable to the clique of people surrounding Ross Gelbspan.