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The Assessments Are Rigged

December 28, 2017 By Wendy Hart

Wendy Hart: Instead of wondering how kids are doing on state assessments and whether a school is “good” based on the assessment scores, we need to be asking what are these assessments supposed to be measuring and how do we know they really are measuring what they claim?

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: assessments, Common Core Math, data collection, SAGE, standardized assessments

New Poll Shows a Majority of Utahns Oppose Common Core

June 15, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

The Salt Lake City Tribune conducted a poll of 1,500 likely Utah voters and found that they disapproved of the Common Core State Standards and SAGE assessment.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Common Core, Gary Herbert, Jonathan Johnson, poll, SAGE, Salt Lake City Tribune, Utah

Herbert Has Seen the Light on Common Core, SAGE (In an Election Year)

May 5, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

After being forced into a primary, Governor Gary Herbert (R-UT) now says he want the Utah State Board of Education to end Common Core and SAGE testing.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, David Crandall, Gary Herbert, Jonathan Johnson, Oak Norton, SAGE, Utah, Utah State Board of Education

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Campbell’s Law

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

- Donald Campbell

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