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They're responsible for common core, which basically makes teachers teach to the test to keep their jobs.
by soperj 5y ago
They're responsible for common core, which basically makes teachers teach to the test to keep their jobs.
- steve_adams_86 5y agoWorth mentioning though is that they didn't invent Common Core Standards; they support it. Common Core was also preceded by No Child Left Behind, which shifted emphasis in education in a similar war. All that is to say that the issue didn't originate with the Gates Foundation. It goes much deeper and is arguably a broad societal issue. No one agrees on how teaching should be done, there's insufficient coordination, people doing the work lack resources and incentive, and kids suffer a lot as a result.
- rndmize 5y agoPretty sure that was a part of No Child Left Behind, years before Common Core. I'm also not sure how development of a set of tests and standards would be related to teacher employment - I would have expected that to be up to the states and how they implement them.