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jcd writes:
"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the primary backer for the inBloom educational grading and service (which also acts as a platform for third-party applications), is catching flak for its role in encouraging the outsourcing of US Education. The article (cited by RMS today) argues that though the Common Core is a scary new concept that takes power away from state and local school governance, the real danger is allowing corporate enterprises to have so much control over our classrooms. The Washington Post also reports a case where Pearson included corporate logos and promotional materials inside its test booklets."
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Tuesday February 18 2014, @06:56PM
Look, if you know anyone who teaches the Common core isn't about teaching. it's about selling standardized testing.
and guess what - the reinforcement of tests takes away time to teach the subject; and are not a good indicator of whether or not the student understands the subject.
But it gives the district a nice club to eliminate teachers, and teachers unions. terribly convenient that.
There are more and more people with college degrees - who can't find work in their field of study. There's a lot of blame to go around for that; but it really comes down to "who's gonna pay you to do.. that?"
and perhaps we need to take a look and start demanding some way to help these students set up their own shops - and out of minimum wage hell. You can't trust corporations to provide jobs. Even research is hard to come by. that education was not a waste - but it is being wasted every day that they cant do whatever it was.
and yes - too many kids are going to college. not enough kids are sent to trade schools. that's a problem with student COUNSELING; not the classes being taught.
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