Common core requires too much testing
November 3, 2013 12:00 AM
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Poorer school districts will be hit the hardest, but every district in
the country will suffer financially from the common core standards. Not
mentioned in "Poorer School Districts Feel at a Loss Over New Common
Core Standards" (Oct. 20) is the fact that the common core will require
an astonishing amount of testing and the testing must be done online.
This means that every student must be connected with the Internet with
up-to-date computers, a huge expense. After the computers are in place,
there will be continual upgrades and replacements, as well as major
changes as new technology is developed.
No evidence has been
provided showing that online testing will benefit students in any way.
What is clear is that online testing will help computer and testing
companies that take no risk. We taxpayers pay for everything, and if
student achievement declines, we will be told that we need even
higher-tech tests, and we will be presented with national test 2.0.
STEPHEN KRASHEN
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