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The Common Core Tests - Is Pearson Engaged In PSYOPS?

Just two of the Common Core English Language Arts questions from 2014. As a lifelong writer, I do not feel that any of the sentences in Part B support Part A with any great degree of logic. There is a growing and well justified rebellion around the nation at the oh so mellifluously named Common Core standardized tests inflicted on children either last week or this. The Washington Post just ran an excellent article by Valerie Strauss , titled Educators alarmed by some questions on N.Y. Common Core tests. It details, quite eloquently, the despair - I think that is the appropriate word - of many educators tasked with preparing children for the tests, and just as importantly, consoling them afterwards - not because of the results necessarily, but simply the vastly unpleasant, confusing, often age-inappropriate and ridiculously epic nature of the tests themselves. Valerie quotes the principal of "a well regarded elementary school in an affluent 'gold-coast' distr