I’m in complete sympathy with the G&T parents and kids who’ve had to endure this but I did want to point out that the Pearson state ELA and math tests affect far more students and NYS is still determined to keep those completely secret. How is this not sufficient to force NYSED to release those tests–parents found these errors, but neither parents (nor anyone else) can find an error if they can’t see the test!! Apparently it’s $32 million to Pearson for those exams.
Merryl Tisch and John King do not want parents to find errors on the tests - that's why they're hiding the contents.
The NYSED and the Regents do not want their testing industrial complex challenged, do not want their teacher evaluation system challenged, do not want their supremacy over education policy undermined.
If Pearson's work on the 3rd-8th grade tests is found to be as shoddy as their work on last year's 3rd-8th grade tests, if it is found to be as shoddy as the work they have done on the G&T tests, the NY State testing industrial complex will be exposed as fraudulent, the teacher evaluation system as unworkable and the leadership of Merryl Tisch and John King as criminally dishonest.
That's why they're going to fight to hide the contents of these tests.
They must not get away with this.
The whole education system has a bunch of idiots working for them. WHy don't you have real parents tell you how to test the kids instead of stressing everyone around these dumb test.
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