Jonathan Pelto reacts with dismay to the new state superintendent in Connecticut. Diana R. Wentzell has been interim commissioner since Stefan Pryor departed after a series of charter school scandals.
Wentzell has been a major booster of Common Core and the SBAC tests. If Connecticut follows the pattern of other states, parents will be shocked when they learn their child has failed the test. Connecticut regularly scores second or third in the nation on NAEP.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The solid performance by Connecticut students on NAEP doesn’t matter if the goal is to discredit the public schools, which suggests that all the hoopla about American kids being unable to compete in the global marketplace is just part of the play book to replace public schools with charters.
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“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Too bad our illustrious politicians have not learned some of the most basic facts of life.
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Poor Connecticut. All the past work to give kids a quality education is now being discredited by the educational/industrial complex.
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Always a sad day when your beautiful, full of life, amazing child is all of a sudden labeled an idiot.
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