The executives at PARCC continue to delete Tweets (and possibly my post about the deletions, which disappeared in the middle of the night of Friday the 13, between 10:46 pm, when it was posted, and 4:45 am, when a reader informed me that it was gone).
Julian Vasquez Heilig decided that it would be a useful exercise for his education policy students to study these issues. He posts the disputed posts and challenges his students to examine the issues
The question:
Is the analysis of PARCC tests fair use for research and scholarly purposes?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“Fair Use”
The PARCC is fairly useless
On that we can agree
And using it is fruitless
As any fool can see
It’s fair to post the question
From test that isn’t fair
And make a fair suggestion
That PARCC is Emp’ror bare
And all of those who support PARCC and any part of the standardized testing “industrial complex” are either fully naked or pretending to be blind.
By the way, the TPP includes fierce copyright laws that will give American corporations more rights, easier ways to settle disputes and longer copyright years. http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/03/23/tpps-copyright-term-benefits-us-burdens-others/
Folks like Dean Baker have made the case that it is primarily about protecting corporation “Rights’ (copyrights and patents — and corporation “rights” to sue individuals and governments to recover “damages”) and only minimally about “trade”.
Joseph Stiglitz called it the “worst trade deal ever”.
It’s basically a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
I also got censored re: that same tweet about PARCC. I am in good company. LOL!
“A Cat in Bird’s Clothing”
“I tawt I taw a puddy tat
On Twitter, yes I did”
And Tweety Pie is plump and fat
For Twitter, yes it is
Twitter Puddy Tat
better title “The Catbird”