They are making huge profits from the manufacture of the national standardized tests and from the publishing
of test prep materials that schools are compelled to buy.
We know that many schools are spending precious dollars
on test prep materials, and that instructional time formerly dedicated to field trips, special projects, the arts and enrichment, has been reallocated to test prep, testing, and AIS services.
That means that there is more time for test prep each year which means
more testing prep materials will be bought, more specialists hired from companies to tell teachers how to teach to test...
The school, responding to pressure from New York State, had purchased
test prep materials from the company that makes the exam for the state.
For example, curriculum is reduced to test preparation, funds are directed toward
commercial test prep materials instead of library books and laboratory equipment, and instruction in untested subjects - including science and history - is minimized.
I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from
producing test prep materials.
Even as the annual state testing season bore down on her this spring, fourth - grade teacher Jin Yi barely bothered
with test prep materials.
Other Princeton review contracts this school year have been for $ 600,000 for consulting for four transitional high schools — Lamberton, Sayre, Vaux and Parkway Gamma High, and $ 750,000 for
PSSA test prep materials, support and professional development.
Chicago - based education technology startup BenchPrep today announced that it has raised $ 6 million to bring personalized and
interactive test prep materials to students via the Web and mobile.
We don't have enough money to heat our schools or lower class size, but we somehow can pay for production and printing of tests,
test prep material, scoring for tests, shipping the tests?
It does added harm to those students most in need because the cost of the tests,
test prep materials, and the technology to administer the tests takes financial resources away from addressing their needs propelled by poverty and racism.
Ordinarily, given
that test prep material for the bar exam is a very comprehensive content that is written for a very niche - specific audience, materials to help students potentially prepare for the bar exam have been prohibitively expensive, costing as much as $ 1,000 and higher.
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