Standardized Tests Have Always Been About Keeping People in Their Place There are some things that can’t be unseen. America’s history of standardized testing is one of them. Today, critics from all sides of the political spectrum decry the overuse of high stakes tests while paradoxically championing them for accountability purposes – especially for schools serving…
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Blinded by Pseudoscience: Standardized Testing is Modern Day Eugenics
Blinded by Pseudoscience: Standardized Testing is Modern Day Eugenics Adolph Hitler was a big fan of standardized testing. It helped justify much of the horrors of the Nazi regime. “National Socialism is nothing but applied biology,” he said. In other words, it’s just science, people. Some races are simply inferior to others. Black people, Jews, Gypsies,…
Fewer Resources, Harder Tests: Common Core in the Last Days of Obama
Fewer Resources, Harder Tests: Common Core in the Last Days of Obama The bell hadn’t even rung to begin class yet, but Ce Ce already had enough. She saw the pile of standardized test look-a-like sheets on the front desk and immediately asked if she could go to in-school suspension. I’m not kidding. She’d prefer to…
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