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Category Archives: NCLB
High stakes testing is strangling America’s public schools. #EndHighStakesTesting
Dear Bill Gates, High stakes testing is strangling America’s public schools. I have been a teacher for 10 years, all of them in high-poverty schools. Early in my career, when NCLB was just getting started, I knew even then that … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Mr.and Mrs. Gates: This experiment should be put to rest for once and for all…
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gates, For years now, you have joined forces with Michelle Rhee to drive and enact your education reform agenda. The cornerstone of this agenda states that the greatest single factor effecting student achievement is to place a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Education Reform, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CCSS, CCSS Testing, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Ed, Gates Education, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Invalid Corporate Education Reform, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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High Stakes Tests hurt kids! High Stakes Test results are JUNK Science!
Dear Bill and Melinda Gates, I write to you as a very concerned parent and public school teacher. The high stakes tests that you swear by are causing so much stress to young children. I have heard stories from concerned … Continue reading
Posted in High Stakes Testing, Junk Science of High Stakes Standardized Testing, NCLB
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Foundation, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Junk Science, NCLB, Race to the Top, RttT, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Bill, please consider how would the test have evaluated you and decided YOUR future as a teen?
Dear Mr. Gates, My name is Alaina and I used to be a teacher. I came from a truly disadvantaged background, worked my way through college, sometimes even collecting cans to pay my tuition before I got a scholarship, … Continue reading
NCLB and RttT are removing our final hope of an equal education…experienced teachers.
Dear Bill and Melinda, I retired last year – three years earlier than I’d planned – after teaching in an urban high school in Providence, Rhode Island for almost two decades. The faculty had been working hard since the mid-90s … Continue reading
Our students with disabilities did not make AYP (Annual Yearly Progress).
From an anonymous reader’s comment on Diane Ravitch’s blog post: An Amazing Website: Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates: Dear Bill and Melinda, I truly believe you started with good intentions. As mature adults who make mistakes, it is time to … Continue reading
The 12 Steps to Recovery for Teachers Under the Influence of Corporate Education Reform
Dear Bill and Melinda, There is a disease in public education. Some of us are now addicted to corporate education reform. For those wondering how to tell whether you are suffering from this disease, we recommend the following self-assessment: A … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Gates, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Education Reform, Edreform, Education, Melinda Gates, NCLB, Resistance, Standardized Testing, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Testing, Uncategorized
Tagged 12 Steps of Recovery, Corporate Edreform
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High Stakes Tests Destroy Students’ Self-Esteem in Hours – Special Ed Teacher says “Heartbreaking”.
Dear Bill and Melinda, I have taught SPED for 36 years. I’ve seen lots of changes — most for the better — but having to give these students the test was heartbreaking. I spend months building up their self-esteem to … Continue reading
Is there someone out there who truly believes that a child with cognitive disabilities can pass these tests at grade level?
Dear Bill and Melinda, I as a teacher of Special Needs students have asked repeatedly over the years why my students have to take these tests. Always the same answer-it is the law and we can only have a certain … Continue reading
Who thought of forcing children on IEPs to take grade-level high stakes standardized tests anyway?
Dear Bill and Melinda, Katie and Susan would like to ask you some questions about this powerful video created by a parent: Katie: In this moving video, a 3rd grade boy with special needs struggles to complete just one of … Continue reading
Posted in IDEA, NCLB, Special Education, Standardized Testing
Tagged ELL, Evaluations, Homework, IDEA, IEP, Math, NCLB, Special Ed, Special Education, Test Prep
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Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates 