Unless what passes for #education is #StandardizedChildAbuse (aka #standardizedtesting). MH and ED dual masters degrees here with 30+ years classroom teaching experience in #Title1 schools.
Child abuse is part of age-old cycle pattern that underlies tragedy of terrorism and neoconservative response to terrorism: anti-pattern is education.
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanBehaviour
#CollectiveUnconscious
..#SharedFacts
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanBehaviour
#CollectiveUnconscious
..#SharedFacts
February 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Unless what passes for #education is #StandardizedChildAbuse (aka #standardizedtesting). MH and ED dual masters degrees here with 30+ years classroom teaching experience in #Title1 schools.
🎉🎊🎈🥳 Hey, #teachers! It's coming up on spring #standardizedtesting time! #StandardizedChildAbuse
#edusky
#educhat
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Standardized Testing and the Third Reich
Teachers are morally conflicted by the utter mindlessness and the coarsening effect of what they are forced to put children through. They cannot even imagine the kind of mentality of an Education Secr...
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March 31, 2026 at 1:20 PM
🎉🎊🎈🥳 Hey, #teachers! It's coming up on spring #standardizedtesting time! #StandardizedChildAbuse
#edusky
#educhat
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So frustrating when the far Right raises a critique liberals dismiss. Example: No parents, teachers, students debated or voted on #standardizedtesting based on standards set by international organizations, representing powerful elites.
December 30, 2024 at 12:02 AM
So frustrating when the far Right raises a critique liberals dismiss. Example: No parents, teachers, students debated or voted on #standardizedtesting based on standards set by international organizations, representing powerful elites.
June 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The SAT has evolved throughout the 100 years since it was first administered. 📝
From 1966-67 through 2014-15, the average overall #SAT score fell by 53 points, with the average score for the reading section declining much more than the average math score.
#SATscores #StandardizedTesting
From 1966-67 through 2014-15, the average overall #SAT score fell by 53 points, with the average score for the reading section declining much more than the average math score.
#SATscores #StandardizedTesting
June 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The SAT has evolved throughout the 100 years since it was first administered. 📝
From 1966-67 through 2014-15, the average overall #SAT score fell by 53 points, with the average score for the reading section declining much more than the average math score.
#SATscores #StandardizedTesting
From 1966-67 through 2014-15, the average overall #SAT score fell by 53 points, with the average score for the reading section declining much more than the average math score.
#SATscores #StandardizedTesting
Agreed. However, #StandardizedChildAbuse ( #StandardizedTesting) leaves little to no time for that. #Edusky
March 19, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Agreed. However, #StandardizedChildAbuse ( #StandardizedTesting) leaves little to no time for that. #Edusky
#EducationResearchers who support #StandardizedChildAbuse aka #standardizedtesting SHOULD be fired.
SCA destroyed USed to an extent unprecedented since #segregation.
I experienced this #datadevolution first-hand over my 30+ year #teaching career in #Virginia's #Title1 #schools.
#edusky #educhat
SCA destroyed USed to an extent unprecedented since #segregation.
I experienced this #datadevolution first-hand over my 30+ year #teaching career in #Virginia's #Title1 #schools.
#edusky #educhat
Urged to speak out, education researchers face a high-stakes choice — The Hechinger Report
It’s a bit like asking patients in intensive care to make the case for their own treatment.
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March 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
#EducationResearchers who support #StandardizedChildAbuse aka #standardizedtesting SHOULD be fired.
SCA destroyed USed to an extent unprecedented since #segregation.
I experienced this #datadevolution first-hand over my 30+ year #teaching career in #Virginia's #Title1 #schools.
#edusky #educhat
SCA destroyed USed to an extent unprecedented since #segregation.
I experienced this #datadevolution first-hand over my 30+ year #teaching career in #Virginia's #Title1 #schools.
#edusky #educhat
'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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The Contract Fight In Education Unions (ZNetwork)
How do Trump’s latest onslaughts, like sending the National Guard to DC and threatening to do the same to major cities with Black mayors, relate to US contra...
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August 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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The Contract Fight In Education Unions (ZNetwork)
How do Trump’s latest onslaughts, like sending the National Guard to DC and threatening to do the same to major cities with Black mayors, relate to US contra...
l.smartnews.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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Now available! Bringing together candid reflections with decades of research on education, @dianeravitch.bsky.social makes a powerful case for becoming, as she calls herself, “an activist on behalf of public schools.” buff.ly/RVZluNn #SchoolChoice #Vouchers #Privatization #StandardizedTesting #LGBT
October 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Now available! Bringing together candid reflections with decades of research on education, @dianeravitch.bsky.social makes a powerful case for becoming, as she calls herself, “an activist on behalf of public schools.” buff.ly/RVZluNn #SchoolChoice #Vouchers #Privatization #StandardizedTesting #LGBT
#High-stakestesting is 🔥significantly correlated 🔥 with impaired #mentalhealth among #teachers, as the stress and anxiety associated with these exams can lead to #burnout.
#edusky
#educhat
#medsky
#StandardizedTesting
#StandardizedTeacherAbuse
Sources:
spark.bethel.edu
#OxfordUniversityPress
#edusky
#educhat
#medsky
#StandardizedTesting
#StandardizedTeacherAbuse
Sources:
spark.bethel.edu
#OxfordUniversityPress
Bethel University's SPARK (Scholarship, Publishing, Arts, Research, and Knowledge)
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July 14, 2026 at 10:35 AM
#High-stakestesting is 🔥significantly correlated 🔥 with impaired #mentalhealth among #teachers, as the stress and anxiety associated with these exams can lead to #burnout.
#edusky
#educhat
#medsky
#StandardizedTesting
#StandardizedTeacherAbuse
Sources:
spark.bethel.edu
#OxfordUniversityPress
#edusky
#educhat
#medsky
#StandardizedTesting
#StandardizedTeacherAbuse
Sources:
spark.bethel.edu
#OxfordUniversityPress
#StandardizedChildAbuse / #StandardizedTeacherAbuse has been my names for #StandardizedTesting for nearly two decades now. Just click on these # for more. #Edusky
July 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#StandardizedChildAbuse / #StandardizedTeacherAbuse has been my names for #StandardizedTesting for nearly two decades now. Just click on these # for more. #Edusky
Why are #students at every grade level, in every district in the United States performing worse than ever? Was it caused by #COVID? Is it #poverty, the #iPad, #StandardizedTesting, #corruption in the #SchoolDistricts? Well, perhaps it's a little of all of the above.
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How Public Education Failed in the Liberal Enclaves That Care About It Most
Student achievement has fallen off a cliff. Neither Trump nor the pandemic is to blame.
nymag.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Why are #students at every grade level, in every district in the United States performing worse than ever? Was it caused by #COVID? Is it #poverty, the #iPad, #StandardizedTesting, #corruption in the #SchoolDistricts? Well, perhaps it's a little of all of the above.
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The podcast returns! Survive spring's tough standardized tests with tips for educators and students. Listen now! #StandardizedTesting #SpringExams #EducationPodcast #InnovativeEducators #EdTech #iready
May 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The podcast returns! Survive spring's tough standardized tests with tips for educators and students. Listen now! #StandardizedTesting #SpringExams #EducationPodcast #InnovativeEducators #EdTech #iready
If you need proof #standardizedtesting is setting students up for failure, just ask the students. #StandardizedChildAbuse l.smartnews.com/p-12om0K6/Nf... #Edusky
A 9-year-old goes in on standardized tests and ends with the best mic drop of all time (Upworthy)
If you need proof standardized testing is setting students up for failure, just ask the students.
Sydney Smoot has a bone to pick with the Hernando County...
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November 13, 2024 at 10:02 PM
If you need proof #standardizedtesting is setting students up for failure, just ask the students. #StandardizedChildAbuse l.smartnews.com/p-12om0K6/Nf... #Edusky
'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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The Contract Fight In Education Unions (ZNetwork)
How do Trump’s latest onslaughts, like sending the National Guard to DC and threatening to do the same to major cities with Black mayors, relate to US contra...
l.smartnews.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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The Contract Fight In Education Unions (ZNetwork)
How do Trump’s latest onslaughts, like sending the National Guard to DC and threatening to do the same to major cities with Black mayors, relate to US contra...
l.smartnews.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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The Contract Fight In Education Unions (ZNetwork)
How do Trump’s latest onslaughts, like sending the National Guard to DC and threatening to do the same to major cities with Black mayors, relate to US contra...
l.smartnews.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
'... #bipartisan 🤮 (deforms) imposed by #capitalism that #AFT & #NEA accepted contested by actual education unions in much of the world... changes #neoliberalism made to #education including #privatization, #charters & domination of #standardizedtesting...'
#Edusky
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#Edusky
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And public school administrators answer to both 🔵 & 🔴 #standardizedtesting, data-obsessed politicians.
September 16, 2024 at 12:16 AM
And public school administrators answer to both 🔵 & 🔴 #standardizedtesting, data-obsessed politicians.
#Teachers & #nurses have been #terrorized for many years in #toxicworkenvironments. 🤬But most of them are WOMEN so not much attention paid. This is especially true due to #managedcare and federally mandated crap #StandardizedTesting. No one deserves to be treated like this. #Edusky #teachersky
March 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
#Teachers & #nurses have been #terrorized for many years in #toxicworkenvironments. 🤬But most of them are WOMEN so not much attention paid. This is especially true due to #managedcare and federally mandated crap #StandardizedTesting. No one deserves to be treated like this. #Edusky #teachersky
#StandardizedChildAbuse
#StandardizedTeacherAbuse
#StandardizedTesting
#BiPartisanFuckingOfK12SinceNCLB
#Edusky
#Educhat
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#StandardizedTeacherAbuse
#StandardizedTesting
#BiPartisanFuckingOfK12SinceNCLB
#Edusky
#Educhat
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New Study Shows How Out of Control and Ineffective K-8 Testing Has Become; Clear Need to Change Assessment and Accountability Paradigms - Fairtest
Education First documented the proliferation of excessive and harmful testing in American K-8 public schools in its report Rethinking the Test Pile: A National Study of K-8 Academic Assessments. Stude...
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September 2, 2026 at 12:17 AM
How many teachers and/or administrators here on #edusky recognize that #StandardizedTesting destroyed teaching as a profession? Me? 30 years in Title 1 Virginia school district, now retired. I experienced what teaching was like before & after original NCLB & ESSA reforms. #Edusky
August 27, 2024 at 10:03 PM
How many teachers and/or administrators here on #edusky recognize that #StandardizedTesting destroyed teaching as a profession? Me? 30 years in Title 1 Virginia school district, now retired. I experienced what teaching was like before & after original NCLB & ESSA reforms. #Edusky
One of the main fallacies of #StandardizedTesting. Look up McNamara in relation to the (almost forgotten now) #VietnamWar for the genesis of this fallacy.
April 20, 2024 at 8:00 PM
One of the main fallacies of #StandardizedTesting. Look up McNamara in relation to the (almost forgotten now) #VietnamWar for the genesis of this fallacy.
I'm tired of retyping it so I made it a screenshot. #COVID #Kids #Students #TraumaInformed #LongCOVID #Schools #StandardizedTesting #Literacy #MathSkills #ExecutiveFunctioning #BrainInjury #CentralNervousSystemDisorders #Disabilities #Disability #Parenting #Education #Learning #Regulation #LockDown
February 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I'm tired of retyping it so I made it a screenshot. #COVID #Kids #Students #TraumaInformed #LongCOVID #Schools #StandardizedTesting #Literacy #MathSkills #ExecutiveFunctioning #BrainInjury #CentralNervousSystemDisorders #Disabilities #Disability #Parenting #Education #Learning #Regulation #LockDown
#Teachers and #administrators who support or have "no opinion" about #standardizedtesting are like chickens who flock to eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken. #Edusky
October 1, 2024 at 10:08 PM
#Teachers and #administrators who support or have "no opinion" about #standardizedtesting are like chickens who flock to eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken. #Edusky