(Hour 3a, b, c)
(Hour 3a) Senior Fellow Sid Glassner recommended a Google search for a series of videos on YouTube: Common Core – The Portsmouth Interviews. Sid saluted the “outstanding moderator” Ann Marie Banfield and believes anyone who takes the time to watch will not be disappointed.
The same cannot be said for the time spent by students on high stakes (smarter balanced assessment) testing. Testing that has “no value” and creates an “abusive situation” for kids.
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(Hour 3b) Glassner dropped the hammer on Common Core, a “tool of indoctrination” for kids to become “corporate cogs.”
Glassner pointed to the HUGE amounts of money involved that buy our elections.. Frighteningly enormous amounts of money that are now buying our Public Education system as well.
Glassner compared Common Core to Obamacare: we’re finding out what’s in it.
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(Hour 3c) Glassner strongly urged parents to draw the line in the sand, and opt their kids out of the smarter balanced assessment testing.
Sid had harsh words for the lawmakers “blind acceptance” of Common Core and the accompanying high stakes testing it requires. All rubber stamped with absolutely no evidence that any of it will work.
Glassner had even harsher words for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his “intensely insane accountability fever.”
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