Sentences with phrase «out of the standardized tests whose»

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The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

(Still haven't figured out whether that is meant as a punishment to the students whose parents have opted them out or to the student's whose parents didn't step forward and opt their children out of this charade of a standardized test).