Common Core Is NOT The Best For Our Children I have many factually based reasons to support the statement in the above title. For those of you not familiar with Common Core, it is a curriculum and testing based program that has been “forced” upon our teachers and students. This Utah video lists the ten […]

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Present Danger In Testing And Data Mining Of Our Children This is a follow up to my previous article http://www.newswithviews.com/Clark/neil101SO.htm , and even though there is some duplication, my desire is to reinforce some important points. Very little is known about the Smarter Balanced testing that is mandated in Oregon schools and 10 other states. […]

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Testing In Our Schools Few people understand the reason behind most of the current testing in our schools. The end of the year standardized tests are a major concern of mine, and I hope will be yours after I summarize this topic. Your children are being used to fill corporate pockets, with end results being […]

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This is a follow up to my previous article http://www.newswithviews.com/Clark/neil101SO.htm , and even though there is some duplication, my desire is to reinforce some important points. Very little is known about the Smarter Balanced testing that is mandated in Oregon schools and 10 other states. Portions of this writing are from a variety of sources. […]

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Originally posted on Americas Education Watch:
One of the most distressing characteristics of education reformers is that they are hyper-focused on how students perform, but they ignore how students learn. Nowhere is this misplaced emphasis more apparent, and more damaging, than in kindergarten. A new University of Virginia study found that kindergarten changed in disturbing…

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Neil Clark — Testing in our Schools// // // Josephine County, Oregon — Few people understand the reason behind most of the current testing in our schools. The end of the year standardized tests are a major concern of mine, and I hope will be yours after I summarize this topic. Your children are being […]

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