PARCC monitoring student's social media, wants schools to "punish" them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/for-pearson-common-core-is-private-profit.html

Wow. Even Aljazeera thinks Pearson is the beneficiary of Common Core.

Of course Pearson is a beneficiary of the Common Core standards. Pearson sells educational materials. Any time school systems buy new educational materials, Pearson is a beneficiary.

So too are Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Education, McMillan and many others benefitting - who are all direct competitors to Pearson.

ANYONE can write, develop, publish materials compliant with Common Core. Pearson doesn't own any sole rights to Common Core, not by a longshot.

It's an argument that goes NOWHERE.

[Anonymous]

It's an argument that goes NOWHERE

LOL! You are comparing the massive changes of Common Core--books to go with the new curriculum and all the new tests that go with it--to routine upgrades of books? Wow.

[Anonymous]

Why do you think the textbook companies were so involved? Go check out the connections between members of the committees to develop CC and the publishing companies.

[Anonymous]

Have you paid any attention to the PARCC and Smarter Balanced problems? Have you thought about all the new tests and computeres required this year? And, you think the publishing companies had nothing to do with Common Core?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:http://thecourier.com/local-news/2015/03/24/school-chief-common-core-useful-but-too-much-testing/

Here's a start. He blames PARCC--but, face it, PARCC was developed with help from CC developers.

Can we please stick with the assertion at hand, namely that "so many systems" are having "so much trouble" implementing the Common Core standards?

Unless you would also like to support two further assertions, namely that

1. The developers of the Common Core standards also helped to develop the PARCC tests, and this was improper.
2. The Common Core standards (not NCLB) require testing.

Presenting a handful of examples does not constitute "so many" any more than holding up a snowball on the floor of the Senate on a February proves that climate change is a hoax - particularly when everywhere but the East Coast of the US was experiencing warmer than usual weather at that point in time. Anyone can cherrypick information. Citing 3, 4 or 5 examples when there are over 130,000 K-12 public schools in the US isn't exactly compelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think the textbook companies were so involved? Go check out the connections between members of the committees to develop CC and the publishing companies.

Oh, please. You obviously have not been around schools very long. Textbook companies were already making billions of dollars off of school districts long before Common Core. Decades before. In terms of economics and profits for textbook companies, nothing has changed significantly with Common Core.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you paid any attention to the PARCC and Smarter Balanced problems? Have you thought about all the new tests and computeres required this year? And, you think the publishing companies had nothing to do with Common Core?

My children took the PARCC test on Chromebooks. Obviously, this is proof that Bill Gates secretly owns both Pearson and Google!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you paid any attention to the PARCC and Smarter Balanced problems? Have you thought about all the new tests and computeres required this year? And, you think the publishing companies had nothing to do with Common Core?

My children took the PARCC test on Chromebooks. Obviously, this is proof that Bill Gates secretly owns both Pearson and Google!

Not just the Google Chromebook OS, but don't forget about Samsung and Acer too (because they made the Chromebook hardware)

LMAO!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It's an argument that goes NOWHERE

LOL! You are comparing the massive changes of Common Core--books to go with the new curriculum and all the new tests that go with it--to routine upgrades of books? Wow.

Back up, please. Which new curriculum are you talking about? And which "massive changes", made by which publishing companies? Do you in fact know that the publishing companies have made "massive changes", and if so, how do you know this? Or are you just assuming that of course they will make "massive changes", and if so, why do you assume this?

[Anonymous]

Not sure what textbooks you're using but I've looked at and compared plenty of textbooks originally published in the late '90s and early 2000s that only had a few minor updates with the new editions to bring them to Common Core. Definitely nothing "massive" and in fact nothing more significant or major than what they already do every couple of years with each new edition anyhow.

[Anonymous]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102496406


Nice article about Pearson and Common Core. Profits up 3%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.cnbc.com/id/102496406


Nice article about Pearson and Common Core. Profits up 3%

Wow, a whole, whopping 3%. </sarcasm>

Note that there are plenty of companies that had no direct involvement in Common Core are also making money. Because that's what they do, that's what they've done for decades. Whether it was state standards or Common Core, they would tweak their content to meet the new standard and sell copy.

Article by some Johnny Come Lately who, like the PP, obviously isn't aware that those companies were profiting off of schools long before Common Core, and that Common Core really didn't change any of that.

[Anonymous]

Nice article about Pearson and Common Core. Profits up 3%

Price of stocks is up, too.

Nice article. Points out all the money from the grants and contracts from so many states--and coming so fast.

[Anonymous]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/cuomo-common-core-and-pearson_b_1293465.html

Pearson is also in politics. Go Common Core!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.cnbc.com/id/102496406

Nice article about Pearson and Common Core. Profits up 3%

It's not an article about Pearson and Common Core, it's an article about educational publishing companies and Common Core. Not surprisingly, educational publishing companies, which are in the business of selling educational materials, are selling educational materials related to the Common Core. (In further news, water is wet.)

These educational publishing companies include Pearson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Staff Development Workshops, Scholastic, Catapult Learning, McGraw Hill, Pivot Learning Partners, AP Ventures, Action Learning Systems, and Solution Tree. I don't know what CNBC is counting as a "Common Core contract", but whatever they're counting, according to their table of "Common Core's contract winners", 79% (101 contracts) have gone to companies that are not Pearson.

And finally:

Common Core is seen as a major growth driver for Pearson, for example.

Philip Gorham, a senior equity analyst at Morningstar, estimates that Common Core-related business will be one of two reasons for more than 3 percent growth for the U.K.-based company over 2015.


Growth =/= profits.