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[quote=Anonymous]Right, but Pearson's and McGraw-Hill aren't fixing these problems. They're raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from school systems who buy their textbooks and tests without necessarily having aligned their curricula to the tests. Teaching to these poorly designed assessments hurts poor kids most. Read about the NY Consortium Schools for Performance Based Assessment if you want to learn about what useful 3rd-8th grade assessments look like.  The fantastic sums going to American corporate testing entities and their bubble sheets would be much better spent on teacher training and better pay, enrichment, tutoring to provide remediation, better school libraries, smaller classes supporting collaborative student work, thoughtful field trips etc.  The reality is that high performance countries are making much smarter investments in their poor kids than we are. The Netherlands population comprises a higher percentage of hard scrabble immigrants than ours, yet they clobber the USA on PISA exams.

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