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Test-and-Punish Doesn't Educate, but It's Profitable for Testing Companies

Wed, 09/19/2012 - 16:37 — Dave Culver
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  • American education is in crisis because institutional inertia, bureaucracy and policymaking in the hands of education amateurs in state legislatures and Washington who are beholden to corporate interests have locked in a 19th-century curriculum and all the baggage that goes with it. That relic of a bygone era isn't up to the challenge, and pursuing it with rigor is making a bad situation worse.
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Susan Ohanian and Marion Brady, Truthout

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September 7, 2012 | Future historians, trying to explain why America, at the turn of the 21st century, chose a path to education reform that made catastrophe all but inevitable, will have a difficult time unraveling the tangled weave of ideology, ignorance, hubris, secrecy, naiveté, greed and unexamined assumptions that contributed to that catastrophe.

Why, they'll wonder, would the citizens of a country that had become the richest and most powerful in the world, a country that had accumulated patents, Pulitzers, Nobels, and other national and international awards out of all proportion to the size of its population - why would it hand over its system of education to corporations, politicians and a wealthy guy who went to private schools?

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"No Excuses" and the Culture of Shame: The Miseducation of Our Nation's Children, Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. Daily Kos

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