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This is a beginning! And let's keep the pressure up on the USDoE. The academic gap is a resource gap.

Standards and testing make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Education is not a business.

Refuse to take the test. What can the yahoos do? Put the kids in jail?

All this testing is simply nuts. How many high stakes have you take in your life? I took only 3. Having school rallies for testing is a waste of time.

The media is a huge part of the problem. The media is sensationalistic.

Obama is rhetoric.

This testing craze is pure lunacy. It is a way to control the citizens of this country and make oodles of money at the same time. Folks....it's time for a revolution.

Those who can't do much, go into POLITICS. I don't trust one politician. They have no ethics. They don't know the difference betw...

I also supported Obama. I will not support Obama in the next election. I feel "had."

So am I, Matt Damon. I too am disappointed in Obama. Obama has rolled over to Wall Street. Obama is a huge disappointment. Vote third party.

Obama's track record has been awful. His cabinet sucks.. It's now May 2011, and I am sick. Yes the DEMS are spineless. Obama chose Arne Duncan for Secretary of Education. Look at Obama's Jobs Person, CEO of GE. I won't go on. I will make myself sick.

Race to the Top is BAD. It's really a race to the trough. Learning is not a race. HELP me. SAVE me. Vote third party. Yes, Race to the Top is indeed a SCAM.

Duncan creeps me out. Lack of creativity? His Race to the Top does not promote creativity. Can't vote for the REPs. Can't vote for the DEMs. I will vote third party.

I voted for Obama and I too no longer hope for audacity. His educational policies are horrid...follow the money. Obama's state of the Union address made no sense at all.

Hooray! Good for these folks. Racism and fascism reign in this country.

I am so depressed re: this country. The rich get richer, and the gap is widening. There are homeless people. Children are hungry. Poverty is everywhere.

Don't the the United States this information. The U.S.A. thinks they can take anything from other countries and their peoples.

John Kuhn for Secretary of Education.

The United States had better watch out re: common core state standards and high stakes testing. To standardize people via high stakes testing and standards is dangerous.

Excellent message and true.

So sad that promises aren't kept.

Excellent and right on, Dr. Krashen. I appreciate you and your fine work.

What a concept. Why are we testing our kids to death when there is no money for schools? Testing does not equal learning. High stakes testing does not help our young find themselves. Education is not a RACE to the TOP. There is no top.

"Once you label me, you negate me." Good one. We label our s...

Obama is a turn coat.

Send this post to as many people as you can. The parents need this information.

John,

Thanks for your honesty.

I always suspected that TFA is crummy. And I suspect this is true of KIPP as well.

This is a LIE. When you control for poverty, our students do very well. How about dealing with poverty. The academic gap aid a resource gap.

Canada has a whole slew of money. He has resources. And he admits that reading saved him.

Rhee is wrong. Gates, Broad, and Walton are all wrong, too.

Roy Romer is wrong.

Yes, there is a difference between knowledge and knowing. I agree that land is not a commodity.

Save us from "teaching" rubrics. Rubrics limit, like the common core standards limit. Consider writing rubrics. They also limit. I have read pieces of writing that are perfect according to the rubric, and the piece made no sense whatsoever. These kinds of formulaic assessment are insane. Rubrics ...