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11. Testing, No Child Left Behind, and the Bush-McGraw Hill Friendship

Mon May 4, 2015, 06:05 PM

May 2015

The testing mania is an excellent way of getting public money into private hands. It is about this, not evaluating students. The Bushes and the McGraws of McGraw-Hill and Princeton Testing Services live side by side at their summer homes in Kennebunkport. They are very old friends.

School Districts pay a lot for these test and for their scoring reports. This is their real purpose in pushing testing, not to mention the punitive aspect to make teachers and students "know their place" in the economic system, that is intimidated and easily led.

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