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Category Archives: Special Education
Common Core Tests: Educational Malpractice for Students with Special Needs
Dear Mr. and Mrs Gates: This is what is gong on in every county across the country as students with disabilities are forced to take tests they are not yet ready for and have not learned the content: In about … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core High Stakes Testing, Educational Malpractice, Special Education, Special needs
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, CCSS, CCSS Testing, Common Core, Common Core State Tests, Corporate Education Reform, Edreform, education, Educational Malpractice, Gates Foundation, Malpractice, Melinda Gates, Special Education, special needs, teaching, testing
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High Stakes Testing, Special Education: A False Picture of Failure
Dear Bill and Melinda, I am a retired teacher from the Rhode Island School for the Deaf. I taught English Language Arts in the middle school and high school until retiring in the fall of 2011. One of the … Continue reading
Posted in High Stakes Testing, Special Education
Tagged American Psychological Association, APA, Bill Gates, Common Core, Failure, Grade Level Testing, Helen Keller, High Stakes Testing, IEP, Melinda Gates, One Size Fits All, Retired Teachers, Rhode Island Department of Education, Rhode Island DOE, Rhode Island School for the Deaf, Sheila Resseger, Special Education, special needs, standardization, Students, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Zone of Proximal Development
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My name is Andrea Rediske, and I am Ethan Rediske’s mother. Please Pass #EthansAct! #EyesOnDOE
Dear Bill and Melinda, A national wave of empathy and outrage was created when the state of Florida demanded a child named Ethan Rediske take the FCAT high stakes test. Despite the fact that Ethan was on his deathbed at … Continue reading
Posted in Andrea Pratt Rediske, Ethan Rediske, High Stakes Testing, Special Education
Tagged Andrea Pratt Rediske, Bill Gates, Common Core, Department of Education, Disabilities, Ethan Rediske, FCAT, Florida DOE, Florida FCAT, High Stakes Testing, IDEA, Melinda Gates, Opt Out Orlando, Special Education, Standardized Testing, Students
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Every single one of my students “failed” the state test this past school year, and only 1 student passed in the entire 3rd grade at my school. Does this mean my colleagues and I are poor teachers?
Mr. and Mrs. Gates, “You can lead a horse to water, but cannot make him drink.” This old saying pretty much sums up the education profession. Teachers and other education professionals devote their lives to imparting knowledge to children day … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Measuring Effective Teaching, Special Education, Standardized Testing
Tagged 3rd Grade Retention Policy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Corporate Education Reform, Deaf, Deafness, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Special Education, The Bill and Melind, You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
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Special Ed Teacher: High stakes testing is not the way to assess student progress or teacher effectiveness.
Dear Mr. Gates and the Gates Foundation, High stakes testing is not the way to assess student progress or teacher effectiveness. The tests currently in use – and worse, the ones coming, such as the PARCC test – have little … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Billionaires, Common Core Tests, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, IDEA, Measuring Effective Teaching, NCLB, Race to the Top, RttT, Special Education, Teacher Evaluations, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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“[Persons with Autism] are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It’s that you’re destroying the peg.” – Paul Collins
Mr. and Mrs. Gates, My mother is a powerful and passionate woman, who, for my entire life, has never taken “no” for an answer. I come by this trait naturally. If, by now, it is not apparent that I am … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, End High Stakes Testing, Special Education
Tagged Autism, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Resignations, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Harry’d pass your silly high stakes tests if he chooses to!
Hey Bill, I want to tell you about Harry. He was one of my students in the Financial Literacy course I teach. All students in New Jersey have to complete this semester long course in personal finance in order to … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Special Education
Tagged ADHD, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Corporate Education Reform, Edreform, ELL, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Foundation, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, IDEA, IEP, NCLB, Special Education, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Special Education Teacher: ALL students, deserve to be treated more humanely than this. #EndHighStakesTesting
Dear Mr. Gates, I’m writing to give you an insider’s view of the damage being done by the push to use high stakes testing. I believe that you have good intentions, but you are being given bad advice. While I … Continue reading
Posted in High Stakes Testing, Special Education
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Ed. Gates Education, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Special Education, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Dear Melinda: I resigned because of your edreform. I hope that as a woman and as a mother, you will hear what I am saying and do something about it before it really is too late.
A teacher’s appeal to Melinda Gates… Dear Melinda, I’ve decided to go against the grain here and write to you instead of Bill, in the hopes that, as a woman and more importantly as a mother, you will hear what … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Education Reform, Melinda Gates, Special Education, Teacher Resignations
Tagged Billionaires, Corporate Education Reform, Corporate vs Public Education, Edreform, Melinda Gates, Special Education, Teacher Philosophy, Teacher Resignations, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates
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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
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