PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING IN COMMON CORE BY DONNA GARNER:
“The Psychological Testing in Common Core Standards”
by Donna Garner
5.17.14
http://www.educationviews.org/psychological-testing-common-core-standards/
Common Core schools in various parts of the U. S. have begun to require students (without parental knowledge) to take the Pearson Clinical Tests. The questions on these tests contain very personal questions. Teachers (as seen on the BASC-2 link below) enter personal, subjective observations about their students into the Pearson database. Pearson’s privacy policy says they will share the information with their contractors and that the policy can change without notice. However, the contractors have no privacy policy. It is not a stretch to imagine that students’ personally identifiable information could indeed be used against them for college admissions and/or future employment.
LINK TO PEARSON’S TRACKING FORM: http://images.pearsonclinical.com/images/PA/Products/BASC-2_BESS/bess_individualtracking.pdf
Combine this with the following, and it is obvious that Common Core’s real goal has little to do with academic excellence but much to do with psychological/emotional manipulation and the indoctrination of this and future generations of children into the social justice agenda:
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Actual examples in Common Core English/Language Arts instructional materials for literature and writing (Zaner-Bloser) – indoctrination through social justice activism
First Grade Literature and Writing – 6 year olds -- How to persuade by using emotional words rather than fact-based words -- social justice activism, entitlements, teaching children how to manipulate their parents to get what they want, marginalizing relationships between 6-year olds and their parents
Third Grade Literature and Writing -- Student observation form not evaluating a student’s growth and change in literature and writing but in a student’s individual behaviors and attitudes to advocate for social activism, social viewpoints (know when something is unfair, fine-tuned sense of unfairness, recognizing social advocacy, solving group problems)
LINK TO YOUTUBE VIDEO: http://youtu.be/FSHoxWaVeto
Donna Garner