<p>As a NY teacher this resignation letter says it all</p>
<p>This is going on all across the country</p>
<p>Some well written points of view. But is Pearson really preventing him from teaching? In my opinion testing and grading are very different than teaching. Surely, he can still teach, albeit in an atmosphere of standardized testing.</p>
<p>Yes, good, good, everybody else abandon their degrees in education so when I graduate there are actually jobs for me.</p>
<p>Or maybe, just maybe, a revolution in teaching can begin by teachers, students, and parents banding together to show the governments just how idiotic standardized testing is</p>
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■Pearson has also acquired partnerships with companies to deliver PARCC, SAT testing, GED testing, and was the central player (through Achieve) in the design of the National Common Core Standards. The GED Testing Service, while wholly owned by the American Council for Education, entered into a joint venture with Pearson to transform the GED for some 40 million adult Americans (one in five adults) lacking a high school diploma. This is an entirely new market.</p>
<p>Even with all of Pearson’s efforts, they are not the only game in town. McGraw-Hill is another publisher forging similar connections and making money hand over fist due to NCLB-mandated reading programs like Open Court and SRA Reading Mastery. Of course, after billions spent on Reading First and the McGraw-Hill materials, the federally funded evaluation of the program showed no increase in reading comprehension by third grade. McGraw-Hill is also one of the biggest test publishers in the U.S. and publishes the CTBS, the central competitor to Pearson’s illustrious SAT-10.</p>
<p>The legislation forced upon states to adopt the curriculum (i.e., the Common Core) and its required testing measures (i.e., PARCC) essentially eliminates the possibility of consumer choice (supposedly a key concept in free market ideology) and requires that taxpayer dollars for education be handed over to Pearson and McGraw-Hill as the sole providers of nearly all educational resources available to the schools. It is frightening that Pearson, profiting billions from public education, is simultaneously operated by and sponsors organizations that promote the destruction of public education. It is essentially forcing the public to pay for the demise of its own education system"</p>
<p>hehehehhe~ true :)</p>