I wrote on incongressional.com about how states are dumbing down tests to make themselves look better. How else would politicians who say “Judge me on the schools” get re-elected?
The link has graphs from a study shown at a congressional hearing on the reauthorization of NCLB.
“My big problem with the rollout of the Common Core is that, if some teachers hadn't read this article, they might have felt like they were the only ones confused about the CCS rollout too.”
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