20-fold increase in standardized testing coming with Gates Foundation's "Common Core":

[quaker bill]

54. nice try

but if you haven't run into credible sources yet, read a bit more, they aren't all that hard to find.

Sitting here I have watched to growth of testing, because I have put two kids through public schools. Each year they rachet up the standards, for a fact, they actually do. They increase the score needed to pass, for a fact, they actually do. My kids took the tests.

When they bump the passing score up enough, they then mark schools as "failing" and push vouchers, because "no kid should be trapped in a "failing school"". These are the same schools I went to. It is complete bullsh*t.

Never in our history has a larger portion of the US population had HS diplomas and college degrees. The schools are not failing. It is hogwash pushed to defund the schools, spend masses of money on private sector test administrators, and push vouchers for private corporate profit.