Sentences with phrase «profits from standardized tests»

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letting teachers teach, treating each student as an unique individual, limiting standardized testing, banning those with profit motives from our schools, addressing poverty as a roadblock to learning, and maintaining local, community control of schools.

Pearson's North American Education division, which last year reported sales of 2.6 billion British pounds ($ 4.03 billion) and operating profit of 493 million pounds, up 5 percent from 2010, designs tests for many U.S. states and scores hundreds of millions of standardized exams each year.

As a teacher, there are no meaningful endeavors from which to profit in education unless one thinks that incessant standardized testing is meaningful.

Getting this myth «believed» meant new opportunities to turn tax dollars into profits — profits from, for example, paying a few teachers more and many teachers less; profits from designing standardized tests; profits from renting school facilities; profits from managing schools; profits from data management systems and test - scoring systems; and profits from selling software platforms and computing devices.

This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers.