another misguided shot at standardized testing

In Seattle, protest against the Common Core test is catching on. Meet one high school teacher who has led a boycott against standardized tests as educational assessment, and who educates his students on their right to opt out. Gwen Ifill reports.

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Proponents and opponents are both right about who is opting out of standardized tests.

Officials had predicted lower passage rates for the new Smarter Balanced tests, which are based on the Common Core learning standards. State Superintendent Randy Dorn called the results "very positive."

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Even teachers in states that never adopted the standards are downloading common-core-aligned curricula for their classrooms.

My daughter missed more school last week due to the state's standardized testing regimen than she did because of the teacher walkout. But only the latter seems to concern legislators.

It turns out that the stakes for this spring's Common Core-aligned tests are not quite as high as they might seem. The Hechinger Report surveyed the District of Columbia and all 44 states* that have adopted the Common Core and will be administering a Common Core-aligned test this spring to find out how they plan …

Common core is turning into a divisive issue in education and politics, but opponents should give the standards a chance to work before writing them off.

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