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DefenseLawyer

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5. I'm not sure it's ideology at all. They just found another place to make a buck.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sat May 19, 2012, 08:24 AM

May 2012

There's a lot of money to be made in standardized testing and privatized education. Whenever you bring profit into the picture, efficiency becomes a necessity. Steamlining the process helps the bottom line.

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