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And how do you know? refer to something within the story of charlottes web that tells you that shes a good spider. so, yes, standardized testing is at the core of that, and that is what many people are concerned about. some people also say even though the teachers union, american federation of teachers, even the united federation of teachers here for new york city, which has the largest population of students in the country, a million students, they say theyre not against common core, but they t...

Government where its taking control from the parents and just making government -- >> trying to fit them into boxes. >> the standardized testing. >> thats only effective to a point. not for every kid. >> you know, the goals are admirable. the problem is the idea of the federal government taking over education. what we saw is something bigger than just this. it is the idea we see in government of the people work for the -- are slaves to office holders. the superintendent of schools didnt want to ...

Government where its taking control from the parents and just making government -- >> trying to fit them into boxes. >> the standardized testing. >> thats only effective to a point. not for every kid. >> you know, the goals are admirable. the problem is the idea of the federal government taking over education. what we saw is something bigger than just this. it is the idea we see in government of the people work for the -- are slaves to office holders. the superintendent of schools didnt want to ...

Rather, im being forced to function as a cog in a wheel and this well is not turning in the right direction. >> clearly the standardized testing has taken us to another level. you understand what is going on with them. they were graduating from hard up areas, unable to read or keep up with other people, so they standardized the tests to close the schools that are not effective and because of that, the standardized testing, has made people teach too much to the test and not to the students. >> re...

>> welcome back. time for quick headlines for you. texas rolling out changes for standardized testing. it will cut the number of tests for high schoolers from 15 to 5 per school year. the reason, standardized exams they say take up too much time during the school year. governor rick perry expected to fi sign the bill within days. the feds in court to fight a new york judges ruling on the morning after pill. it wants to delay lifting age restriction requirements on plan b arguing the judge over s...

Committing. >> do you think this experience says something about standardized testing overall, that in your view, standardized testing is not good at all for udents? >> im not going to say its not good at all. but i dont think it needs to be used as the sole indicator of what a child knows, because its only one form of measurement. and it takes multiple measurements the truly measure the knowledge of a child. >> not just the standardized tests. >> absolutely. >> and these teachers are expected b...

Good because we have determined that its not going anywhere. and in those meetings the curriculum directors went on to tell us that the 9/11 terrorists were no worse than the christian crusaders. this is the mind-set of the people were dealing with. >>clayton: any movement since then removing the book? are you planning on home schooling your children in some capacity? how would you stop this? >> you know, we need help from our state officials. we need help from our elected officials, our governo...

Like us on facing into and while youre there, check out the new webisode of political playground. she tackles marriage and why people should be able to marry whoever they want. up next, the boycotting of parents against standardized testing. we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person youve known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone whos lived well into their 90s. and thats a great thing. but even though were...

Weve got this headlining story coming out of el paso, where allegations of test-rigging and grade manipulation. fuelled an audit that the schools that described these schools as diploma mills. two years ago the "u.s.a. today" cited 52 schools in d.c. as having high erase yur rates for standardized tests. how did we turn into a nation where we just care about the standardized tests. not the incentives from policy. standardized testing has been around for a long time. >> standardized testing has b...

Teachers unions go into campaigns. we have to separate that. >> my name is nic. im a high school student from new york and wrote a book on education. my question is considering that the advent of standardized testing has increased to historic levels, teaching to the test, billions of dollars into testing and really the killing of creativity in many ways, how do you change this trend and put students directly in your administration and let them have a voice in this policy decision-making process?...