An HCS parent who prefers anonymity wanted to share some research on the opt-out "movement":
Here are some of the links I think are worth considering:Letter and position paper by three NYC teachers (the position paper is quite thorough):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/ 04/teachers-refuse-to- administer-standardized-tests/ Letter from District 2 NYC principals to parents:
http://dianeravitch.net/2014/04/07/top-scoring-nyc- district-will-protest-ela- tests-this-friday/
Letter to NYS Commissioner King and the NYC Schools Chancellor by a parent/CUNY prof:
http://dianeravitch.net/2014/04/04/nyc-parent-cancel-the- tests/ History of the Common Core:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/ 18/everything-you-need-to- know-about-common-core- ravitch/
Letter by Award-Winning Principal Carol Burris:
http://www.liparentsforeducation.com/ common-core-2/principal-i-was- nave-about-common-core-by- carol-burris/
On Market-Based Education reform, specifically regarding Pearson:
http://www.alternet.org/education/corporations-profit- standardized-tests?page=0%2C0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/pearson-pays- 77-million-in-common-core- settlement/2013/12/13/ 77515bba-6423-11e3-aa81- e1dab1360323_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/04/ 24/a-brief-history-of- pearsons-problems-with-testing Building the Machine (Common Core Documentary)--39 minutes long:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjxBClx01jc
update:
This link has feedback from teachers and principals who have seen this year's test, as well as some parent feedback:
To these I (TM) will just add a link from Science Daily this week: Education: States' standardized tests have a negative impact on parents' civic engagement -- ScienceDaily
New research from a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that parents of public school students in states with more extensive and stringent student assessment systems express lower trust in government, less confidence in government efficacy, and more negative views of their children's schools, thereby threatening civic engagement and the potential for future education reform.I'm a data guy myself--I would love to approve of more data collection, but once you start making decisions based on that data, well, as I quoted a while back:
Campbell’s law: “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making,” ... “the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
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