Valerie Strauss catalogued the long history of Pearson’s testing errors.
These are only the errors that were discovered and went public.
What about the errors that went undiscovered?
What about the students who never graduated because Pearson made a mistake?
What about those who failed because Pearson was wrong?
What about Pearson winning a contract for almost $500 million in Texas at the same time that the legislature slashed the public schools’ budget by $5.4 billion? Isn’t that cheating students?
If Pearson were a student, it would flunk.
No wonder they insist on keeping their tests secret.
We might find more pineapples if we had the chance to look at them.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Anything cloaked in this much secrecy, is trouble.
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Our district just adopted a literacy software program which a Pearson trainer presented to our faculty, but which denies that it is a Pearson product. Achieve 3000 is the name, the content is less than scintillating, and the admin team insists that despite using a Pson trainer, they are not P’s. Have all the gory details, names etc if any one is interested.
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Need to keep a job: Typical trick. When people get wise to you, change your name–e.g., various names for the groups of Chicago/Billionaires’ Boys Club–Civic Committee then Illinois is Broke, etc.; K12 has been presenting to 18 Illinois school districts using a different name (but owned/operated by K12). Too bad for all you reformers–we’re not as stupid as you think; in fact, we’re one step ahead of you wolves in sheep’s clothing!
(And we all know the emperor has no clothes.This mean YOU, Duncan, Rhee, Bloomberg, Gates, King, White, etc., etc. ad. nauseum!)
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“No wonder they insist on keeping their tests secret.”
It’s appalling that any teacher would give a test to his/her students that the teacher has not read and vetted. To not read and vet a test is an UNETHICAL breach of teaching protocol (although the test makers would like to tell you that you can’t read them because of test “security” it is more like “insecurity” on the makers part).
My challenge to the teacher readers here is to stand up for ETHICAL education and not give these tests* to the students unless you have a chance to read and vet them. Quit being a part of the problem, quit with the educational malpractice that is standardized testing. ¡BASTA YA! (“Oh but my job is on the line”, YEP)
*And there many other reasons besides the not vetting process to not be a part of the educational standardized testing tomfoolery, trash and twaddle. (man I love looking up synonyms, what a life, eh!) See Noel Wilson’s complete take down of educational standards and standardized testing in: “Educational Standards and the Problem of Error” found at: http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/577/700
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