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The Gates Foundation? I thought it was Pearson! Is Gates behind Pearson? Is Pearson behind Gates? Are they both merely puppets of the Federal Reserve? This is so confusing! [/quote]

What do you think the schools use to administer the Pearson tests?
 
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for goodness sakes.. who cares if it was Pearson that developed the tests or teaching materials. Do you work for a competitor or something?   McGraw Hill is a publishing company that also publishes a lot of teaching material and text books.  Did you hate them, too.  What matters is that the materials are good.  Yes, most of us agree that a lot of the material is lacking.  But would it have been any better if McGraw Hill wrote them? I doubt it. So, really, let's drop the Pearson argument. It's getting old.  And it wasn't the Gates Foundation that came up with the standards.  They helped start the movement and provided the money.  That was it.  Bill Gates did not personally hand pick each person who came up with the standards.

And as for standardized testing, yes, there is too much of them, but we do need some standardized testing.  I recall some people posting on this forum how they remember taking such standardized tests when they were in school.  So, clearly, we've had them even before NCLB.  But different schools were doing different things; some states had them, some didn't. Some states had very low standards; others had very high standards.  And as we all have seen, some states have crazy school boards where they want to change history books, teach creationism in classrooms (I believe in God, btw), etc.. So, I really don't think leaving educational standards and teaching materials up to the states is such a good idea.

Regarding the argument against the "one size fits all" model - I agree, that what may work in an affluent suburban school won't necessarily work in high poverty schools.  I think they should be allowed to tweak the curriculum to fit their needs better.  However, I don't think they should not be held to the same standards.  They will probably never perform as well as the more affluent schools, but that shouldn't stop them from trying.  Some of those kids can probably do just as well.[/quote]

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